APRIL 24.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1399

Now, therefore, it is hereby notified accordingly, for the information of the public and of all persons concerned, that the said clause 15 is revoked as from the commencement of the regulations hereinbefore referred to.

Dated this 24th day of April, 1917.

W. D. S. MacDONALD,
Minister of Agriculture.

Additional Regulations under the Military Service Act, 1916.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of April, 1917.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE SIR JAMES ALLEN, K.C.B., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him by the Military Service Act, 1916, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby make the following regulations with respect to the services to be performed by religious objectors under the said Act.

REGULATIONS.

1. In these regulations “religious objector” means a reservist who has been called up for service under the Military Service Act, 1916, or has been required to show cause why he should not be called up for service under that Act, and whose appeal to a Military Service Board has been allowed on the ground specified in paragraph (e) of section 18 of that Act.

2. The non-combatant work or services to be required of a religious objector shall be such non-combatant work or services in the employment of the Executive Government of New Zealand as may from time to time be required of him by the Commandant, or by an officer of the Public Service authorized in that behalf by the Commandant, either generally or in respect of any specified religious objector.

3. Every religious objector employed on non-combatant work or services pursuant to these regulations shall be paid therefor at the rate of 5s. a day (being the rate of pay of a private soldier of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force), and shall in addition receive such lodging and rations and be entitled to such allowances as are provided from time to time for private soldiers of the said Force.

4. A religious objector shall not be compelled to wear uniform.

5. (1.) A Military Service Board shall not allow an appeal on the ground set out in paragraph (e) of section 18 of the Military Service Act, 1916, until and unless the reservist has signed and delivered to the Commandant or to the Board an undertaking, in the form in the Schedule hereto, signifying his willingness to perform non-combatant work or services.

(2.) Clause 11 of the regulations made under the Military Service Act, 1916, on the 10th day of October, 1916, and the form No. 8 in the Schedule to the said regulations, are hereby revoked.

SCHEDULE.

Military Service Act, 1916.

UNDERTAKING OF RELIGIOUS OBJECTOR TO PERFORM NON-COMBATANT SERVICE.

To the Commandant, New Zealand Defence Forces, Wellington.

I, [Full name, address, and occupation of reservist], having appealed to a Military Service Board on the ground of my religious objections to military service, hereby undertake, if my appeal is allowed on that ground, faithfully and willingly to perform such non-combatant work or services as may be required of me in accordance with regulations made under the Military Service Act, 1916, and at such rate of payment as may be prescribed by such regulations.

Dated this day of , 191 .

[Signature of Reservist.]

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

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