Mr. W. JOWITTasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department, as representing the Ministry of Health, whether he has received resolutions and, if so, how many, from local authorities urging that the burden 276W Beeston, Leeds, was ordered by the Leeds magistrate on 15th February to have his child vaccinated; that the child for whom the order was made died from convulsions through teething on 24th February: and whether he will instruct the magistrate who made the order to cancel it and abstain from asking for costs in this case?
§ Mr. BRIDGEMANI have no authority to give instructions of this nature to a magistrate. When a Court has made an order imposing costs on a defendant it is for the parties by whom the costs will otherwise be payable to decide whether they will press for the enforcement of this part of the order, and for the Court to decide whether it will enforce it. I have no power to interfere with the Court's discretion in the matter.