New Zealand Gazette – 1917 – No. 138

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✨ Military Service Act Amendment

Num. 138.

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THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

EXTRAORDINARY.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1917.

Military Service Act, 1916.—Amended Classification of Second Division of the Reserve.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this third day of September, 1917.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the fourth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, and made in pursuance of section four of the Military Service Act, 1916, the Second Division of the Expeditionary Force Reserve was divided into classes by reference to the number of the children of the reservists belonging to that division: And whereas it is expedient to amend that classification in manner hereinafter appearing:

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 pursuance of the authority conferred upon him by section four of the Military Service Act, 1916, doth hereby amend in manner set out in the Schedule hereto the classification of the Second Division of the Expeditionary Force Reserve as set out in the Schedule to the said Order in Council of the fourth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen.

SCHEDULE.

NOTWITHSTANDING anything contained in the Schedule to the said Order in Council of the 4th day of July, 1917, the deserted child of a reservist shall not be counted as his child for the purposes of that Schedule.
“Deserted child” means a child whose father has for a period of not less than three months next before the date of this Order in Council failed without just cause to provide that child with adequate maintenance.
The circumstance that the marriage of a reservist has been dissolved, or that he has been judicially separated from his wife by decree

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1917, No 138

NZLII — NZ Gazette 1917, No 138

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🛡️ Amended Classification of Second Division of the Reserve

Domain🛡️ Defence & Military
Dated3 September 1917
KeywordsMilitary Service Act, Expeditionary Force Reserve, Classification Amendment, Deserted Child
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LIVERPOOL, Governor-General

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