JUNE 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1501

(3) Each Regional Deputy shall exercise his functions
in such region as may from time to time be specified in that
behalf by the Minister of Health, and shall be subject in all
things to the control of that Minister.

REGULATION 36.—MEDICAL BOARDS.

(1) For the purposes of these regulations each Regional
Deputy may from time to time appoint such number of
Medical Boards as he thinks fit.

(2) Each Medical Board shall consist of such number of
persons, being two or more, as the Regional Deputy thinks
necessary, all of whom shall be registered medical practitioners
for the time being approved by the Minister of Health for
the purposes of these regulations.

(3) The members of each Medical Board shall be appointed
by the Regional Deputy to hold office during his pleasure. The
same person may be appointed as a member of two or more
Medical Boards.

(4) One member of each Medical Board shall be appointed
as the Chairman thereof by the Regional Deputy.

(5) Every Medical Board shall exercise its functions in
such localities, or in respect of such recruits or classes of
recruits, as the Regional Deputy from time to time directs.

REGULATION 37.—EXAMINATION OF RESERVISTS CALLED UP.

(1) When a reservist has been called up for service with
the armed forces he may from time to time be required
under Regulation 19 hereof to report for examination or
re-examination before a Medical Board.

(2) The examination of a recruit by a Medical Board
shall take place in the presence of all the members of the
Board.

(3) There shall be in attendance at every examination by
a Medical Board an officer of the Army or a warrant officer or
non-commissioned officer.

(4) No indication shall in any circumstances be given to
the members of the Medical Board as to the name, identity,
or residence of the recruit under examination.

(5) The form of report on any such examination shall be
filled in by the officer, warrant officer, or non-commissioned
officer in attendance as aforesaid at the dictation of the
examiners. The report shall be signed by the members of the
Medical Board, and all alterations, erasures, or interlineations
shall be initialled by one at least of the members, but so
that the name, identity, or residence of the recruit is not
thereby disclosed to any member of the Board.

(6) If the members of any Medical Board are in doubt
or unable to agree as to any question arising in relation to
the examination of any recruit or as to their report thereon
the question shall be referred to the Regional Deputy, and
his decision shall be final.

REGULATION 38.—REPORT OF MEDICAL BOARD.

(1) Every report of a Medical Board shall classify the
recruit according to his physical and mental condition in one
or other of such grades as are for the time being prescribed by
the Minister of Health and shall also give such indication as
is for the time being required by the Army Board as to the
fitness or unfitness of the recruit for service with the armed
forces or any section thereof in New Zealand or in any other
part of the world.

(2) The Medical Board may give to a recruit such information as in its discretion it thinks fit with respect to the result
of his examination and the nature of the report.

(3) The report of the Medical Board shall be forthwith
transmitted to the Army Board. The Army Board may if
it thinks fit require the recruit to be re-examined before the
same or any other Medical Board.