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Marriage Allowances.
11. Wives of naval seamen and marines of 25 years of age and over, and of soldiers and airmen of 26 years of age and over, receive marriage allowances." These allowances are liable to forfeiture for drunkenness, immorality, neglect of children or other misconduct on the part of the recipient, and it is also competent for the authority by which the allowance is granted to direct in certain circumstances that it should be paid to some other person in trust for the wife. All cases of misconduct likely to involve the withdrawal of allowances should be reported to the Accountant General of the Navy (Branch 18B), Cornwall House, Stamford Street, London, S.E.1; or to the Secretary, War Office, Caxton House, Tothill Street, London, S.W. 1; or to the Secretary, Air Ministry.
Army Pensions.
12. In order to prevent the fraudulent obtaining of pensions by persons personating Army pensioners, a certain number of persons claiming as pensioners should be visited personally by the Police at their residences every year. Officers not below the rank of Sergeant should be employed on this duty, and they should use tact and consideration, so as to avoid giving offence. Particulars of the persons to be visited are issued by the War Office through local Paymasters as occasion requires; and as fraud is most likely to occur when aged pensioners die, the inquiries will usually relate to persons claiming as pensioners over 80 years of
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Theft of Army or Air Force Stores.
13. In order that illegal traffic in Army or Air Force stores may be prevented, it is important that when offenders are brought to justice deterrent penalties should be imposed.
14. Charges for these offences may be preferred under section 156 (1) or (2) of the Army or Air Force Acts or under section 7 of the Public Stores Act, 1875. In any case of doubt reference may be made to the Director of Public Prosecutions for his advice,
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SECTION X.
EXECUTION OF WARRANTS.
Warrants against Discharged Members of His Majesty's Forces.
1. A discharged member of His Majesty's Forces should not be apprehended on an outstanding warrant of arrest for an offence of a trivial character committed before the defendant joined the colours, unless the Magistrates have been consulted by the Police and have directed that course.
2. Nor should a warrant of commitment to prison in default of payment of a fine imposed before joining the colours be executed without consulting the Magistrates, and informing them that the Secretary of State would consider favourably any recommendation made to him by the Magistrates for the remission of the penalty on the ground of the offender's subsequent service in His Majesty's Forces.
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Foreign" Warrants of Commitment.
3. If a warrant of commitment is received from another police force to be executed after being backed under section 3 of the Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1848, and there is a prison, nearer and more convenient than that named in the warrant, to which the prisoner could be taken, the Magistrate to whom the warrant is taken for endorsement should be asked to endorse it with a direction that the prisoner be conveyed to such prison instead of that named in the warrant, in pursuance of the Summary Jurisdiction Rule of the 31st January, 1922 (see page 66). When such a warrant has been executed in this way, notice should be sent to the police force from whom it was received.
Execution of Distress Warrants for Rates.
4. It is a Police duty to execute warrants of distress in respect of non-payment of a General District rate.
5. The duty of executing distress warrants in respect of non- payment of the Poor Rate depends upon the persons to whom the warrant is directed and issued. If the warrant is addressed in the prescribed form both to the Overseers and to the Police and issued to the Overseers, it appears to be primarily the duty of the Overseers to execute it, and they can call upon the Police for assistance; but if a warrant so addressed is issued to the Police, then the obligation to execute it appears primarily to fall upon the Police.
Execution of Warrants of Ejectment.
6. The duties imposed on the Police by warrants under the Small Tenements Recovery Act, 1838, are (i) to effect an entry (by force, if
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