Order Confirmation. (Power to take easements &c. by agreement); Section 16 Section 17 Section 18 (Amendment of Schedule (A) to Act of 1866); 5 Section 19 (Certificate as to completion of temporary Section 20 (Amendment of sections 20 22 23 and 24 of Act Section 21 Confirm a Provisional Order under the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act 1899 relating to Glasgow Corporation. Presented by Secretary Sir John Gilmour. Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed, 12 July 1927. LONDON: PUBLISHED BY HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE. To be purchased directly from H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE at the following addresses: 120, George Street, Edinburgh; York Street, Manchester; Printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode, Ltd., East Harding Street, E.C.4, Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty. [Price 18. 3d. Net.] [Bill 171] Amend the Government of India Act with a view A.D. 1927. 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: 10 15 20 1. With a view to facilitating the provision of an AmendIndian navy, the following amendments shall be made ments of in the Government of India Act: Government of (1) At the end of section twenty-two the following India Act. new subsection shall be inserted : A.D. 1927. (Indian Navy). (2) After section forty-four, the following section shall be inserted : "44A. Any naval forces and vessels which may from time to time be raised and provided by the Governor General in Council shall be 5 employed for the purposes of the government of India alone, except that if the Governor General declares that a state of emergency exists which justifies such action, the Governor General in Council may place at the disposal 10 of the Admiralty all or any of such forces and vessels, and thereupon it shall be lawful for the Admiralty to accept such offer." (3) For paragraph (e) of subsection (1) of section sixty-five, the following paragraph shall be 15 substituted : "(e) For all persons employed or serving in or belonging to any naval forces raised by the Governor General in Council, wherever they are serving, in so far as they are not 20 subject to the Naval Discipline Act; and " (4) For section sixty-six, the following section shall be substituted :- "66. Subject to the provisions of this Act, provision may be made by the Indian Legisla- 25 ture for the application to the naval forces raised by the Governor General in Council of the Naval Discipline Act, and that Act, if so applied, shall have effect as if references therein to His Majesty's Navy and His 30 Majesty's ships included the forces and ships raised and provided by the Governor General in Council, subject, however (a) in the application of the said Act to the forces and ships raised and provided 35 by the Governor General in Council, and the trial by court-martial of officers and men belonging to those forces, to such modifications and adaptations (if any) as may be made by the Indian Legislature 40 to adapt the Act to the circumstances of India, including such adaptations as may be so made for the purpose of authorising |