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(4) Officers of any armed force may be appointed in the
same manner as if no such Proclamation had been made.
(5) No enlistment shall be invalid because made in breach
of this regulation.
(6) Except as provided in this regulation, nothing in these
regulations shall preclude the voluntary enlistment of members
of any armed force.

MISCELLANEOUS.

REGULATION 46.—EMPLOYERS NOT TO DISMISS RECRUITS BEFORE THEY COMMENCE SERVICE WITH THE ARMED FORCES.

Except with the precedent consent of the Minister, no
employer shall, by reason of the fact that any person has
voluntarily enlisted in any armed force or has been called
up for service with the armed forces, dismiss that person
from his employment at any time before that person
commences his duties with the armed forces.

REGULATION 47.—EMPLOYERS NOT TO EMPLOY RESERVISTS UNLESS ENROLLED.

Every person who at any time after the enrolment of any
class of the Reserve has been proclaimed and directed employs
or retains in his service for more than seven days any man
who belongs to that class and who, being required under these
regulations to apply for enrolment therein, has not so applied
shall be guilty of an offence against these regulations, unless
he proves that he believed on reasonable grounds that the
man so employed or retained in his service did not belong to
that class or was enrolled therein.

REGULATION 48.—EMPLOYERS NOT TO EMPLOY DESERTERS.

Every person who employs or retains in his service any
man who has deserted or is absent without leave from any
armed force shall be guilty of an offence against these regula-
tions, unless he proves that he did not know and had no reason
to suspect that the man so employed or retained in his service
was a deserter or absent without leave.

REGULATION 49.—ENROLLED RESERVISTS TO NOTIFY CHANGES OF ADDRESS, ETC.

(1) Every man who after being enrolled in the Reserve
changes his residential address shall within seven days there-
after give notice of that fact and of his new residential address
by registered letter addressed to the Director of National
Service at Wellington.
(2) Every man enrolled in the Reserve who, before his
enrolment and whether before or after the commencement of
these regulations, changes or has since the 1st day of May,
1940, changed his residential address, shall within seven days
after the commencement of these regulations or after that
change of address (whichever is the later) give notice of the
fact of the change and of his new residential address by
registered letter addressed to the Director.

REGULATION 50.—POWER OF POLICE TO QUESTION RESERVISTS.

(1) After the enrolment of any class of the Reserve has
been proclaimed and directed, any constable may question any
man who may reasonably be supposed to belong to that class
as to all or any of the following matters—namely, his name,
occupation, and residential address, the date and place of his
birth, his enrolment in the Reserve, and any other matters
relevant to the question of his membership of the Reserve or
of any class thereof, or his membership of any armed force.
(2) Any man who fails or refuses forthwith to answer any
question so put to him, or who answers any such question in
a false or wilfully misleading manner commits an offence
against this regulation.

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