§ Brigadier-General CLIFTON BROWNasked the Secretary of State for War if he is aware that, while the Army Act is amended yearly and is reprinted with full corrections, the Rules of Procedure, equally essential for courts martial, are not so reprinted with amendments; that the current issue of Rules of Procedure is over 10 years old and the Army Orders which amend Rules of Procedure are out of print, so that no means are available of correcting the obsolete Rules of Procedure; and if he will have this matter put right without delay?
§ Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANSThe amendments of the Rules of Procedure are not so numerous as to justify the expense of reprinting them annually. It is recognised, however, that a new edition is now due and also that the Rules require to be simplified and clarified; the work is now well advanced and I hope that the new edition will be ready in the near future. In the meantime, there is a stock of the amending Army Orders issued since the last edition which is sufficient for official purposes.