To provide, during Twelve Months, for the Discipline and Regulation of the Army and Air Force. Ordered to be brought in by Mr. Secretary Walsh, Mr. Ammon, and Mr. Leach. Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed, 24 March 1924. To be purchased directly from H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE at the following addresses: 1, St. Andrew's Crescent, Cardiff; or 120, George Street, Edinburgh; or through any Bookseller. Corporations (Expenses). Α BILL ΤΟ Remove doubt as to the legality of certain pay- A.D. 1924. ments by the councils of boroughs, including metropolitan boroughs. E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, 5 as follows:--- with the 1.—(1) The council of any borough (including a Payment of metropolitan borough) may pay reasonable subscriptions, expenses in whether annually or otherwise, to the funds of the connection Association of Municipal Corporations, and may also pay Association 10 the reasonable expenses of the attendance of repre- of Municipal sentatives (not exceeding in any case four) at meetings Corporaof the Association and of the council and any tions. committee thereof. (2) Any sum payable under this Act by the council 15 of a borough other than a metropolitan borough shall be paid out of the borough fund, and any sum payable under this Act by the council of a metropolitan borough shall be paid out of the general rate. 2. This Act may be cited as the Association of Short title. 20 Municipal Corporations (Expenses) Act, 1924. To remove doubt as to the legality of certain payments by the councils of boroughs, including metropolitan boroughs Ordered to be brought in by Sir Douglas Newton, Mr. Snell, Sir John Harmood Banner, Mr. George Thorne, and Sir Charles Wilson. Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed, 19 March 1924. To be purchased directly from H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE at the following addresses: 1, St. Andrew's Crescent, Cardiff; or 120, George Street, Edinburgh; or through any Bookseller. Force Reserve. [H.L.] MEMORANDUM. By virtue of s. 6 (2) of the Air Force (Constitution) Act, 1917, His Majesty was empowered, by Order in Council, to apply with the necessary adaptations to the air force reserve, or to the auxiliary air force, or to the officers or men of any such force, any enactment relating to the army reserve or to the territorial force (now the territorial army-see 11 & 12 Geo. 5. c. 37) or to the officers and men of those forces. Under this Bill it is intended to extend the power of applying these enactments so as to enable substantial changes to be made in them in their application to the auxiliary air force and the air force reserve. principal changes proposed are Auxiliary Air Force. The 1. That county associations may be established under Part I. of the Act of 1907 which may administer both the territorial army and the auxiliary air force within the county, and that this arrangement may, if it is thought desirable, be terminated, in which case separate associations may be formed for purposes of the territorial army only (as at present) and of the auxiliary air force respectively. 2. That a condition may be imposed on officers and men of the auxiliary air force that they shall undertake liability to be called up for service within the British Islands in case of actual or apprehended attack in defence of the British Islands whether or not the army reserve or air force reserve have been called out on permanent service. Air Force Reserve. 3. That men may be enlisted into the reserve either as reservists or as special reservists whether they have previously served in the regular air force or not. |