§ Mr. CURRIEasked whether any and, if so, what instructions have been given either to tribunals or in other quarters as to the position of proprietors of one-man businesses called up already but who would not be liable to be called up under the amended instructions recently announced?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONThere have been no amended instructions recently issued in respect of proprietors of one-man businesses. A recent decision by the Central Tribunal that a particular case fell within the principles which that tribunal announced in September last as those which they considered applicable in dealing with one-man businesses has been widely misrepresented as if it had involved the promulgation of a new principle. The decision of last September was circulated to tribunals as a guide on the 30th September. In these circumstances it is not proposed to take any exceptional action with regard to proprietors of one-man businesses who have already been called up for Military Service, their cases having 1445W presumably been decided by the tribunals concerned in accordance with the principles established nine months ago and recently reaffirmed.