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New Zealand Gazette – 1940 – No. 86

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✨ Home Guard Regulations

REGULATION 7.--ENROLMENT AND DISCHARGE OF HOME GUARD.

(1) Every person who is desirous of becoming a member of the
Home Guard shall complete the particulars concerning himself set out
in a Form of Enrolment to be provided for the purpose by the
Minister, and upon being selected shall be attested by making the
declaration and swearing the oath of allegiance set out in the Form
of Enrolment before--

(a) A commissioned officer of any of His Majesty's Forces;
(b) A Commander of any subdivision of the Home Guard;
(c) The Chairman of any committee or sub-committee;
(d) A Member of the General Assembly;
(e) A Justice of the Peace; or
(f) A Solicitor of the Supreme Court.

(2) The application of any person for enrolment in the Home
Guard may be rejected on the ground of physical unfitness or on
any other ground, or without any ground being specified.

(3) Upon being attested the applicant shall become a member of
the Home Guard. Every member of the Home Guard shall at all
times obey the orders and instructions of all Commanders and other
officers set over him.

(4) Nothing in these regulations shall absolve any person from any
liability for service with any of His Majesty's Forces. If any member
of the Home Guard becomes actively attached to any of His Majesty's
Forces otherwise than as a member of the Home Guard he shall be
forthwith discharged from the Home Guard.

(5) Every member of the Home Guard shall remain a member
thereof until he is discharged. Discharges may be granted by such
persons and in such manner as may be authorized by the orders of
the Dominion Commander.

(6) Upon being discharged a member of the Home Guard shall
return to the Commander of his subdivision, or to his representative,
or otherwise account for all property issued to him as a member of the
Home Guard.

REGULATION 8.--MOBILIZATION OF HOME GUARD.

The Governor-General may at any time, by Proclamation, if in
his opinion it is necessary for the defence of New Zealand by reason
of enemy action or a threat of enemy action, call up the Home Guard
or any subdivision thereof for military service with the Defence Forces
under the Defence Act, 1909, and thereupon the Home Guard or
that subdivision, and every member thereof, shall be deemed to be
included in the Defence Forces.

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

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C. A. Jeffery, Clerk of the Executive Council

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