§ Mr. EYRES-MONSELLasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the code of international law contained in the provisions of the Declaration of London, should be ratified, will be the code upon which the proceedings in British prize courts and the Supreme Prize Court, as well as those of the International Prize Court of Appeal, are to be based; and whether, if this is so, further legislation beyond that contained in the Naval Prize Bill, 1910, will be necessary in order to give effect to the change in the laws and customs which have hitherto governed the decisions of prize courts in this country?
Mr. McKINNON WOODThe answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. With regard to the latter part, His Majesty's Government are advised that no legislation is necessary for the purpose mentioned by the hon. Member.