HC Deb 28 July 1964 vol 699 c289W
Mr. Lipton

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will introduce legislation to remove the power from the courts to give men charged with a criminal offence the option of either joining the Armed Forces or going to prison.

Mr. Brooke

No. A court cannot require a man to join the Armed Forces, or the Armed Forces to accept him.

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