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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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2. In exercising the jurisdiction conferred by these regulations a Military Service Board shall act, so far as may be, in accordance with the procedure prescribed by the Military Service Act, 1916, and the regulations made thereunder, with respect to appeals by men called up for military service under that Act.

3. The term “voluntary recruit” as hereinafter used means any man who has voluntarily enlisted in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, whether before or after the date of these regulations.

4. If the Minister of Defence has reason to believe that any voluntary recruit was at the date of his enlistment engaged in an employment of such a nature that his withdrawal from that employment by the requirement of immediate military service is contrary to the public interest, or if the Minister of Defence has reason to believe that any voluntary recruit has enlisted under such circumstances that the requirement of immediate military service would be a cause of undue hardship to himself or others, or if the Minister of Defence has reason to believe that such circumstances have arisen since the enlistment of any voluntary recruit that the requirement of immediate military service would be a cause of undue hardship to himself or others, the said Minister may, if he thinks fit, refer the matter to a Military Service Board for inquiry and report.

5. On any such reference the Board shall hear and determine the matter so referred, and shall report to the Minister of Defence whether in the opinion of the Board it is expedient that leave of absence from his military duties without pay should be granted to the recruit, and, if so, for what period and subject to what conditions.

6. The Board shall cause due notice of the time and place of any such inquiry to be given to the voluntary recruit and to the Commandant and to such other persons (if any) as the Board may think entitled to be heard.

7. On the receipt by the Minister of Defence of any recommendation so made by a Military Service Board the Minister may take, or cause to be taken, such action in accordance therewith as he thinks fit.

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

Additional Regulations under the War Regulations Act, 1914.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this sixteenth day of January, 1917.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE JAMES ALLEN PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

I, ARTHUR WILLIAM DE BRITO SAVILE, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, do hereby, in pursuance of the War Regulations Act, 1914, and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in that behalf, make the following additional regulations under that Act.

REGULATIONS.

1. In these regulations the expression “person exempted from military service by reason of his occupation” means and includes—

(a.) Every person called up for service with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force under the Military Service Act, 1916, or required under section 35 of the said Act to show cause why he should not be called up for such service, who has, by himself or his employer, appealed on the ground that by reason of his occupation his calling-up for military service is contrary to the public interest and whose appeal on such ground has been allowed by a Military Service Board, or whose obligation of military service has been suspended by a Military Service Board; and

(b.) Every voluntary recruit who has been granted leave of absence from his military duties by reason of the fact that at the date of his enlistment he was engaged in an employment of such a nature that his withdrawal from that employment by the requirement of immediate military service is contrary to the public interest.