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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 111

12. For the purposes of this Schedule a child who has been legally adopted by any person shall not be counted as a child of his natural parents.

13. If any son of a reservist of the Second Division has during the present war died while a member of any Expeditionary Force raised under the Expeditionary Forces Act, 1915, or while a member of any other of His Majesty’s Military or Naval Forces engaged in the present war, such son shall for the purposes of this Schedule be computed as one of the children of that reservist in the same manner as if he had been still living.

F. D. THOMSON,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

War Regulations.—Returns required from Reservists of the Second Division under the Military Service Act, 1916.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this fourth day of July, 1917.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Order in Council dated the fourth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, and made under the Military Service Act, 1916, the Second Division of the Expeditionary Force Reserve has been divided into six classes by reference to the number of the children of the reservist: And whereas for the purposes of the due enrolment of those classes under the said Act, and otherwise for the purpose of the effective administration of that Act, it is necessary that reservists of the Second Division should supply to the Government Statistician such information as will enable him to determine the classes to which those reservists belong for the time being:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of that Dominion, and in exercise of the authority conferred upon him by the War Regulations Act, 1914, doth hereby make the following regulations under that Act.

REGULATIONS.

1. (1.) With the exception hereinafter set forth, every reservist of the Second Division of the Expeditionary Force Reserve under the Military Service Act, 1916, shall within ten days after the 11th day of July, 1917, deliver to a postal officer at a post-office, upon a printed form to be obtained on application at that post-office, a true statement indicating the number of his children as on the said 11th day of July, 1917, together with the names, dates, and places of birth of those children, and if the reservist had no children on that date indicating the fact.

(2.) If any such children are illegitimate, adopted, or step-children, this fact must be specially indicated in the said statement.

(3.) Nothing in the foregoing regulation shall apply to any reservist who has already before the date of this Order in Council furnished to the Government Statistician in writing, either under the National Registration Act, 1915, or under the Military Service Act, 1916, sufficient information as to his children to enable the Government Statistician correctly to enrol that reservist in his proper class in the Second Division as at the said 11th day of July, 1917.

2. If after the 11th day of July, 1917, any change takes place in the number of the children of any reservist of the Second Division of the Expeditionary Force Reserve, the reservist shall, within ten days after the day on which that change takes place, post to the Government Statistician at Wellington a registered letter informing him of the fact, date, and nature of the change, and setting out the full name, residence, and occupation of the reservist.

3. If any reservist fails to fulfil any obligation imposed upon him by these regulations, or if by any false representation relative to his children he deceives or attempts to deceive the Government Statistician, he shall be guilty of an offence against these regulations, and shall be liable under the War Regulations Act, 1914, accordingly.

4. In these regulations the term “child” or “children” has the same meaning as in the Schedule to the Order in Council of the 4th day of July, 1917, whereby the Second Division of the Expeditionary Force Reserve was divided into classes.

F. D. THOMSON,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

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