Oral Answers to Questions — India. – in the House of Commons at on 29 April 1929.
Mr William Kelly
, Rochdale
asked the Under-Secretary of State for India the number of persons arrested under the Public Safety Ordinance, 1929, promulgated by the Viceroy under the special powers vested in him by Section 72 of the Government of India Act and designed to check the dissemination in British India from other countries of certain forms of propaganda, and the names of the persons so arrested?
Viscount Turnour
, Horsham and Worthing
The Ordinance gives no power of arrest except in case of disobedience to an Order issued under it. So far as I am aware, no such Orders have yet been issued.
Secretary of State was originally the title given to the two officials who conducted the Royal Correspondence under Elizabeth I. Now it is the title held by some of the more important Government Ministers, for example the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
