§ Mr. ARTHUR LEEasked the Undersecretary of State for War, whether having in view the fact that twenty-four staff quartermaster-sergeants of the Army Pay Corps were recently passed over for promotion to the rank of staff sergeant-major owing to being over forty years of 852W age, it is contemplated putting into operation in the Army Pay Corps, until such time as the establishment of assistant paymasters, Army pay department, is complete, and for whose promotion the age limit for commission has been abandoned, the provisions of Articles 683 (b) Royal Warrant for Pay, etc., which allows promotion to the rank of warrant officer up to forty-five years of age?
§ Colonel SEELYForty is the limit of age for promotion to warrant rank for the Army generally, and Section (b) of Article 683 of the Royal Warrant for Pay, etc., is only intended for cases of a very exceptional nature. It is not proposed to use it to make the age limit in the Army Pay Corps virtually inoperative.