§ Lieut.-Colonel HURSTasked the President of the Board of Education whether he will consider the expediency of relieving teachers who enlisted in the Army as A I men, and received wounds on service, from medical examination and from having to pay a fee for such examination, in order to place them at no disadvantage to non-serving teachers in respect of the death gratuity under the School Teachers (Superannuation) Act, 1918?
Mr. H. LEWISMy right hon. Friend is afraid that he is debarred from adopting the hon. Member's suggestion by the provisions of Section 3 (1) of the Act. Teachers who served with the Forces are not in a position different from that of other teachers as regards medical examination and the payment of the fee for such examination.