New Zealand Gazette – 1916 – No. 125

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✨ Military Medical Examination Regulations



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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 125

  1. No indication shall under any circumstances be given to the members of the Board as to the name, identity, or residence of the recruit under examination.

  2. The form of report on any such examination shall be filled in by the warrant officer or non-commissioned officer in attendance as aforesaid at the dictation of the examiners. The report shall be signed by the members of the Board, and all alterations, erasures, or interlineations shall be initialled by one at least of the members, but so that the name, identity, or residence of the recruit is not thereby disclosed to any member of the Board.

  3. The report of a Medical Board on any case submitted to it shall be in accordance with the opinion of the majority of the members, but any dissenting member shall indicate his dissent and the grounds thereof in a separate report. If the members are equally divided in opinion they shall make separate reports.

  4. Every report of a Medical Board shall classify the recruit in one or other of the following four classes:—

A. Men fit for active service beyond the seas:

B. Men fit for active service beyond the seas, if they undergo specified medical, surgical, or dental treatment:

C. Men permanently unfit for active service beyond the seas, but fit for service in New Zealand in connection with or for the purposes of the present war:

D. Men permanently unfit either for active service beyond the seas or for any service in New Zealand in connection with or for the purposes of the present war.

  1. Every report which classifies any man as belonging either to Class C or Class D shall set out fully the reasons of that classification.

  2. Every recruit shall before the making of the report of the Medical Board be examined by the associated officer of the New Zealand Dental Corps, who shall advise the Board as to the dental condition of the recruit and as to the necessity of any dental treatment.

  3. The report of the Medical Board shall be forthwith transmitted to the Commandant, who shall take the same into consideration and take thereon such action as he may think fit, having regard to the powers conferred upon him by section 14 of the Military Service Act. The Commandant may, if he thinks fit, require the recruit to be re-examined before the same or any other Board.

  4. The Board may give to a recruit such information (if any) as in its discretion it thinks fit with respect to the result of his examination and the nature of the report.

EXAMINATION UNDER SECTION 35 OF THE MILITARY SERVICE ACT.

  1. Every reference to a Medical Board in the regulations made under the Military Service Act on the 10th day of October, 1916, relative to appeals to Military Service Boards shall be deemed to be a reference to a Medical Board as constituted under these present regulations.

  2. When a Medical Board is required in pursuance of the said regulations of the 10th day of October, 1916, to examine any person for the purposes of an appeal under section 35 of the Military Service Act, the present regulations shall so far as applicable apply to that examination and to the report made in pursuance thereof, in the same manner as if the person examined had been called up for service.

EXAMINATION ON DISCHARGE FROM EXPEDITIONARY FORCE.

  1. No member of the Expeditionary Force, whether he has been called up for service or has voluntarily enlisted therein, shall at any time be discharged therefrom in New Zealand as medically unfit until he has been examined by a Medical Board in accordance with these regulations, and reported by that Board to be permanently unfit for active service beyond the seas.

EXAMINATION OF VOLUNTARY RECRUITS ON ENLISTMENT.

  1. The medical examination of voluntary recruits prior to their enlistment in the Expeditionary Force may, as the Commandant from time to time directs, be made either by a Medical Officer or by a Medical Board, and in the latter case the foregoing regulations as to medical examination shall, so far as applicable, apply in the same manner as if the recruit had been called up for service.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

By Authority: MARCUS F. MARKS, Government Printer, Wellington.




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🛡️ Regulations for Medical Examination under Military Service Act, 1916 (continued from previous page)

🛡️ Defence & Military
Medical Examination, Medical Boards, Reservists, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Military Service Act
  • J. F. Andrews, Clerk of the Executive Council