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2. (1.) Every person exempted from military service by reason of his occupation shall, on ceasing to be engaged in that occupation, forthwith by registered letter send notice of that fact and of his place of abode to the Commandant of the Defence Forces.

(2.) Every person exempted from military service by reason of his occupation (other than a person engaged in casual employment) shall, on ceasing to be employed by any employer, forthwith by registered letter send notice to the Commandant of that fact and of his place of abode, and also of the name, address, and occupation of his new employer (if any).

(3.) Every person being the employer (otherwise than by way of casual employment) of a person known by him to be exempted from military service by reason of his occupation shall forthwith by registered letter send notice to the Commandant of the Defence Forces if the person so exempted leaves his employment or otherwise ceases to be engaged in the occupation in respect of which the exemption was granted.

(4.) Every person exempted from military service by reason of his occupation shall, on changing his place of abode, forthwith by registered letter send notice of the fact and of his new place of abode to the Commandant of the Defence Forces.

3. Every person who for seven days fails to send to the Commandant any notice required of him by these regulations commits an offence, and shall be liable as for a breach of the War Regulations accordingly.

4. The foregoing regulations shall apply in the case of all persons exempted from military service by reason of their occupation, whether their exemption has been granted before or after the making of these regulations.

5. Every person who wilfully deceives a Military Service Board in the exercise of any jurisdiction conferred upon it by the Military Service Act, 1916, or in the exercise of any additional jurisdiction conferred upon it by the Governor in Council under the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1908, shall be guilty of an offence against these regulations, and shall be liable under the War Regulations Act, 1914, accordingly.

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

Regulations as to Financial Assistance for Soldiers of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force.

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 that Dominion, do hereby, in pursuance of the authority conferred upon me by the Military Service Act, 1916, the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1908, and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in that behalf, make the following regulations, and declare that they shall come into operation on the publication thereof in the Gazette.

REGULATIONS.

FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR COMPULSORY RECRUITS.

1. WHEN any reservist called up for service with the Expeditionary Force, or required to show cause why he should not be so called up, appeals, by himself or his employer, to a Military Service Board on the ground that by reason of his domestic circumstances or for any other reason his calling-up for service will be a cause of undue hardship, the Board shall, in determining that appeal, take into consideration the scheme of financial assistance provided by these regulations, and shall act in accordance with these regulations.

2. If the Board is satisfied that apart from the said scheme of financial assistance the calling-up of the reservist would be a cause of undue hardship, but that such hardship is of such a nature that it can be avoided by a grant of financial assistance under these regulations, the Board shall make to the Minister of Defence a recommendation for the grant to the reservist of such financial assistance as is in accordance with these regulations and is considered by the Board to be reasonable and sufficient.