§ Colonel YATEasked the Under-Secretary of State for War, whether attested men belonging to Volunteer Corps who obtain exemption either for definite or indefinite periods may join and become attested members of the new Volunteer Forces when re-organised under the Volunteer Acts; and if such men who may have attained the age of forty-one years and have been passed into the Reserve under the provisions of the Military Service Acts may join the Volunteer Forces of the United Kingdom?
§ Mr. TENNANTExempted men may join the Volunteers, but this will not prevent them being called up if their exemptions lapses or is cancelled. Men over forty-one may join the Volunteers, but men passed to the new Special Reserve at the age of forty or over remain liable for service, and should be dealt with as Army Reservists as under the old Volunteer Regulations,i.e., they may not be enrolled as Volunteers, but may be attached to a corps as supernumeraries.