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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 116

Regulations under the Military Service Act, 1916.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this twentieth day of August, 1918.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

I, ARTHUR WILLIAM DE BRITO SAVILE, Earl of Liverpool, Governor-General 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, and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in that behalf, revoke the Order in Council dated the eighteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the twenty-first day of June, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, and do hereby make the following regulations under that Act, and declare that they shall come into operation on the publication thereof in the Gazette.

REGULATIONS.

HOME SERVICE BRANCH, NEW ZEALAND EXPEDITIONARY FORCE.

Posting.

1. RESERVISTS called up for military service under the Military Service Act, 1916, and recruits between the ages of nineteen and fifty-five who voluntarily enlist for military service, will be attested into the Expeditionary Force for general service, and shall be posted to the branches of that Force in the following manner:—

   (a.) To the Foreign Service Branch.—A reservist or recruit certified by competent medical authority to be fit for active service beyond the seas, and who is otherwise eligible, shall be posted to the Foreign Service Branch.

   (b.) To the Home Service Branch.—A reservist or recruit certified by competent medical authority to be unfit for service beyond the seas, or who is for the time being ineligible for foreign service by reason of age, or who belongs to a class of the Second Division not yet accepted for active service, shall be posted to the Home Service Branch.

Transfers.

2. Transfers between the branches of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force shall be carried out as follows:—

   (a.) A soldier of the Foreign Service Branch serving in New Zealand shall be transferred to the Home Service Branch under any of the following circumstances:—

    When at any time on re-examination he is reclassified by competent medical authority as unfit for active service beyond the seas.
   
    When found to have been irregularly posted to the Foreign Service Branch.

   (b.) A soldier of the Home Service Branch will be transferred to the Foreign Service Branch if certified by competent medical authority to be fit for active service beyond the seas, as follows:—

    When otherwise eligible, immediately fitness is established.
   
    When otherwise eligible, immediately his class in the Reserve is accepted for active service.

Conditions of Service in the Home Service Branch.

3. Soldiers of the Home Service Branch are liable for service, but until the Minister of Defence shall otherwise direct will be placed upon indefinite leave without pay.

Soldiers of the Home Service Branch who volunteer and who are accepted for actual employment on home service will be engaged and will serve under conditions laid down in General Orders from time to time.

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