§ Sir P. RICHARDSONasked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether Irish civil servants who have not resigned before the 6th December will have the benefit of a British guarantee for their pensions?
§ Mr. ORMSBY-GOREOn 19th December last the then Leader of the House gave an undertaking, in reply to a question addressed to him in this House, that His Majesty's Government would be the guarantor of the pensions awarded to civil servants and other officials who might come within the terms of Article 10 of the Treaty. I am not aware of any words in that Article which could be held to require that, in order to benefit by its terms, a civil servant must resign before 6th December next.