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the prescribed medical and, if so ordered, educational examination. The Director of Recruiting is authorized finally to enter or reject candidates who have already been provisionally entered.

52. Liability for Service.—Each candidate shall be informed before signing an engagement that the granting of deferred pay or its equivalent on discharge will be dependent upon his enrolling in the New Zealand Royal Naval Reserve for ten years at the termination of his engagement, or until the age of forty is reached. Where, however, men are invalided or discharged for other causes which would make their services in the Reserve undesirable the Naval Board may approve payment of accrued deferred pay without the man concerned being enrolled in the Reserve. It will not be necessary for a man to perform any drills whilst enrolled in the Reserve, but he will be liable to be called out by Proclamation for service in time of war.

53. Any candidate entering under these regulations shall be eligible for service in any part of the world, and in any ship of the Royal Navy or Navies of the Dominions. He shall, further, be eligible to be sent for training for higher rating to any ship or establishment of the Royal Navy or Dominion Navies.

54. Any candidate finally entered shall be on probation for the first six months’ service, and the Superintendent of Training may recommend his discharge at any time during that period if found unsuitable for the duties required of him, or if his conduct is not satisfactory.

55. Entry of Recruits: Particulars of Birth and Parentage.—Candidates for entry will be required to produce birth-certificates giving particulars as to age and parentage, and only in exceptional circumstances should another form of certificate or statutory declaration be accepted in lieu. Such statutory declaration or certificate must contain particulars as to date and place of birth of the candidate, and the nationality of both parents at the time of their birth.

56. Recruits who cannot immediately furnish the requisite certificate may, if otherwise eligible, be provisionally entered and sent to the Depot without waiting for the particulars as to age and parentage. The Commanding Officer should at the same time be informed of the steps taken to produce the certificate, and the candidate should not be finally entered until this is available, except as provided for in clause 1 to meet exceptional circumstances.

57. In cases of men born out of the Dominion, men of illegitimate parentage, &c., when the particulars required cannot be obtained, the candidate’s papers should be referred to the Director of Naval Recruiting for decision as to entry.

58. A candidate received in the Depot is not entitled to pay until finally entered. On final entry, pay should be credited from the date on which the man or boy was received in the Depot. Candidates who are found to be ineligible by age, and to have attempted to enter by giving a false age or incorrect and important particulars of parentage, are to be discharged without any pay for the period spent in the Depot before final rejection.

59. The birth-certificate is to be forwarded into office with the entry papers, and will be returned to the Depot for final return to the parents as soon as all particulars have been verified.

60. Entry of Recruits: Procedure to be followed.—Application for entry should be made in the first instance to the Defence Office nearest the candidate’s place of residence, where he will be furnished with all necessary particulars regarding service in the New Zealand Division. If eligible by age, and considered to possess reasonable educational and physical qualifications, the officer or non-commissioned officer in charge will apply to the Group Commander of the district for a form of application for entry, and, if under the age of twenty-one, consent paper, to be forwarded to the candidate. On receipt of these documents, duly completed, the Group Commander will arrange for the provisional medical examination of the candidate, either on board one of H.M. ships, should one be present in a port in the vicinity, or at the headquarters of the district; or, if the candidate lives at a distance from headquarters, as the Group Commander may consider desirable. He will also arrange for a preliminary educational test. If passed provisionally, the candidate will be sent to the Depot for final entry.

61. A candidate who applies for entry on board one of H.M. ships should be provisionally examined medically and educationally on board, and if passed, and it is known that there are vacancies for recruits in the Depot, should be forwarded direct, or conveyed thither by the man-of-war if shortly proceeding to the port at which the Depot is established.

62. The term “Recruiting Officer” used hereafter in these regulations has reference to the aforementioned Military officers, to the Commanding