I move amendment No. 48 :—
In sub-section (1), lines 26 and 27, to delete the words " for a period not exceeding three years " and substitute the words " and allowances for a period not exceeding one year ".
I cannot see any circumstances in which an officer could or should be put on half-pay, except with his own consent, for a period exceeding one year. If you are going to do that, he should go out altogether. The half-pay provision has not been much used, to my knowledge and I remember only a couple of cases in the whole 30 years.