Part of Orders of the Day — Auxiliary and Reserve Forces Bill – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 24 October 1949.
I have no objection whatever to the Clause or the Amendment, nor have my hon. Friends, but, as we are in such a mellow mood, no doubt induced by a previous announcement, may I say that I object to the phrase, "owing to a curiosity of drafting." I should say that it was a case of the Minister not having read the Bill properly before it was presented to the House.