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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 51

5. Enlistment badges may be issued by any person authorized in that behalf by the Minister to such men as are deemed qualified to receive and wear them.

6. The issue of any badges may be made upon or subject to such conditions as the Minister thinks fit, and any such conditions may from time to time be varied, revoked, or added to by the Minister as he thinks fit.

7. Every badge when issued shall be accompanied by a certificate signed by the person who issues the badge and containing particulars as to the man to whom it is issued and the reasons for its issue, and such other information and particulars as the Minister thinks fit.

8. Every man to whom any badge has been issued shall at all times while wearing the badge or having it in his personal possession carry with him the certificate issued to him along with the badge as aforesaid, and shall on the request of any officer of His Majesty's Naval, Military, or Air Forces in uniform or any constable produce that certificate for his inspection.

9. No man shall falsely represent himself to be a person who is entitled to receive or wear any enlistment badge.

10. No person other than a man to whom such a badge has been duly issued under these regulations shall wear any enlistment badge or any colourable imitation thereof.

11. Except with the authority in writing of the Minister, no person shall manufacture, import, sell, offer for sale, or have in his possession any enlistment badge or any colourable imitation of an enlistment badge.

12. No man shall lend or part with the possession of any badge or certificate issued to him.

13. Every man who loses a badge or a certificate issued to him shall, within forty-eight hours thereafter, notify in writing the fact and particulars of the loss to the issuing authority.

14. No man to whom a badge has been issued shall wear that badge in any mutilated or substantially altered form.

15. No person shall alter, deface, or mutilate any badge or any certificate.

16. On application by any person to whom a badge has been issued, and on proof to the satisfaction of the issuing authority by statutory declaration and such other evidence as he may require that the badge theretofore issued to him has been destroyed, stolen, mutilated, or lost, and on payment of a fee of 5s., an issuing authority may at any time issue a new badge to the applicant in substitution for the badge previously issued to him.

17. Upon the return of any certificate rendered illegible or spoilt, or upon proof to his satisfaction that the certificate has been destroyed, stolen, or lost, an issuing authority may, upon application by the person to whom the certificate was issued, issue a duplicate of the certificate. Every duplicate so issued shall have the word “Duplicate” written or printed thereon and be verified by the signature of an issuing authority.

18. Every person commits an offence against these regulations who without lawful excuse acts in contravention of or fails to comply in any respect with any provision of these regulations or any condition imposed under these regulations.

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SCHEDULE.

FORM OF ENLISTMENT BADGE.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

By Authority: E. V. PAUL, Government Printer, Wellington.

Price 6d.]