National Service Regulations

STATUTORY RULES.

1951. No. 32.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NATIONAL SERVICE ACT 1951.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the National Service Act 1951.

Dated this eighteenth day of April, 1951.

W. J. McKELL

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Labour and National Service.

NATIONAL SERVICE REGULATIONS.

Part I.—Preliminary.

Citation.

1.These Regulations may be cited as the National Service Regulations.

Parts.

2. These Regulations are divided into Parts, as follows :—

Interpretation.

3.—(1.) In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention, appears—

“District Employment Office” means a District Employment Office or a Branch Employment Office of the Commonwealth Employment Service established under the Re-establishment and Employment Act 1945;

“District Employment Officer” means the officer for the time being in charge of a District Employment Office;

* Notified in the Common Gazette on , 1951

1837.—PRICE 8D. 18/12.4.1951.

 “competent court of summary jurisdiction” means a. court of summary jurisdiction constituted by a police, stipendiary or special magistrate;

“incapable person” means a person who is insane or so mentally or physically incapacitated as to be unable to comply with the requirements of the Act;

“registered person” means a person who is registered under the Act and—.

(a) has not commenced the service specified in section 33of the Act; or

(b) has not attained the age of twenty-six years or, in the case of a person included in the class of persons prescribed by regulation 21 of these Regulations, the age of thirty years;

“the Act” means the National Service Act 1951.

(2.) Any reference in these Regulations to a form by number shall be read as a reference to the form, so numbered, in the Schedule to these Regulations.

Part II.—Registration.

Persons deemed to be in charge of incapable persons.

4. For the purpose of sub-section (3.) of section 11 of the Act and of these Regulations the person deemed to be in charge of an incapable person is—

(a) in the case of an incapable person who is a patient in or an inmate of a hospital, asylum or institution—the chief resident officer or other person for the time being in charge of the hospital, asylum or institution; or

(b) in any other case—any person for the time being having the actual custody, care or control of an incapable person.

Signature on behalf of incapable person.

5.A person complying on behalf of an incapable person with the requirements of the Act or of these Regulations shall, when signing on behalf of the incapable person, write immediately below his signature the name of the incapable person and the reason for which the incapable person does not sign personally.

Applications for early registration.

6.—(1.) A person who desires to apply for registration in accordance with section 16 of the Act may do so in the same manner as that prescribed by section 13 of the Act.

(2.) The applicant shall state, in the space provided for that purpose in Form 1, his reasons for desiring early registration.

(3.) If a Registrar is not satisfied that an application under section 16 should be granted, he shall notify the applicant accordingly.

Form of registration.

7. The form of registration for the purposes of section 13 and section 16 of the Act shall be in accordance with Form 1.

Certificate of registration.

8. A Certificate of registration under the Act shall he in accordance with Form 2.

Completion by signature of certificate of registration.

9.—(1.) A registered person shall, immediately upon receipt of his certificate of registration, complete the certificate by inserting his signature in the space provided for that purpose.

(2.) If a registered person is an incapable person, the person who is deemed to be in charge of the incapable person shall secure, if possible, that the certificate is signed by the person to whom it relates or, if this is not possible, he shall sign on behalf of the incapable person.

Penalty: Ten pounds.

Custody of certificates of registration.

10. The person to whom a certificate of registration relates or the person who is deemed to be in charge of that person shall, subject to these Regulations, be responsible for the custody of the certificate of registration.

Possession of certificates of registration issued to the incapable persons.

11.—(1.) Where a registered person becomes an incapable person, the person who is deemed to be in charge of the incapable person shall endeavour to obtain possession of the certificate of registration relating to the incapable person, and shall be entitled to possession of that certificate.

(2.) Where a registered person who is an incapable person ceases to be an incapable person, the person having the custody of the registered person’s certificate of registration shall forthwith deliver it to him.

(3.) Where a registered person who is an incapable person passes from the charge of one person to the charge of another person, the person having the custody of the incapable person’s certificate of registration shall forthwith deliver it to that other person.

Penalty: Ten pounds.

Change of address.

12.Whenever a registered person changes his place of living, he shall insert the address of his new place of living in the space provided in his certificate of registration and shall deliver the certificate of registration to, or post it addressed to, the Registrar at the National Service Registration Office from which it was issued.

Temporary Change of Address.

13. A registered person who is temporarily absent from his place of living shall make arrangements to ensure that postal communications addressed to him at his registered address and marked “National Service” reach him without undue delay and that, as far as is practicable, his actual address for the time being is ascertainable upon inquiry at his registered address.

Penalty: Ten pounds.

Lost, destroyed and defaced certificates.

14.—(1) When a certificate of registration is lost, destroyed or defaced, the person responsible for the custody of the certificate shall forthwith notify the fact to the District Employment Officer at the District Employment Office specified in the certificate and shall, if so requested by that officer, make a declaration as to the circumstances of the loss, destruction, or defacement and fill in and sign an application in a form approved by the Secretary for the issue of a duplicate certificate of registration.

Penalty: Ten pounds.

(2.) Upon compliance with the last preceding sub-regulation, the District Employment Officer shall, if he sees fit, take such steps as are necessary for the issue of a duplicate certificate of registration.

 (3.) Unless the District Employment Officer otherwise determines, a fee of Two shillings and sixpence shall he payable by a person to whom a duplicate certificate of registration is issued.

(4.) In the case of a certificate which has been defaced, a duplicate certificate, shall not be issued unless the original certificate has been returned to the District Employment Officer.

Surrender of certificate by person presenting himself for service.

15. When a registered person presents himself for service in accordance with a notice served on him under section 26 of the Act, he shall deliver his certificate of registration to the authority to which he  is required by the notice to present himself or a person authorized by that authority to receive it.

Penalty: Ten pounds.

Surrender of certificate by person not called up for service.

16. When a person who is not called up for service in accordance with section 26 of the Act attains the age of twenty-six years or, in the case of a person included in the class of persons prescribed by regulation 21 of these Regulations, the age of thirty years, he shall, within fourteen days after attaining that age, post or deliver his certificate of registration to the District Employment Officer at the District Employment Office specified in the certificate.

Penalty: Ten pounds.

Death of registered person.

17. Upon the death of a registered person, the person having, or entitled to, possession of the certificate of registration of the deceased person shall post or deliver the certificate to the District Employment Officer at the District Employment Office specified in the certificate.

Definition of aboriginals.

18. For the purposes of section 18 of the Act, an aboriginal native of Australia means—

(a) a full-blooded aboriginal native of Australia;

(b) a person who is a half-caste aboriginal native of Australia or has an admixture of aboriginal blood greater than a half-caste; or

(c) a person who has an admixture of aboriginal blood and lives as an aboriginal native or amongst aborigines.

Part III.—Medical Examinations.

Standards of medical fitness.

19. A Medical Board shall classify each person whom it examines into one of the following classes:—

Class A—Medically fit for all service duties.

Class B—Medically fit for only certain limited service duties.

Class C—Temporarily unfit for any service duties.

Class D—Permanently unfit for any service duties.

Notification of result of medical examination.

20.Where a person has been medically examined in accordance with Part III. of the Act, the Secretary shall notify that person in writing whether he has been found fit or unfit for service.

Part IV.—Obligation to Render National Service.

Liability of certain persons to render service until 30 years.

21.University graduates who are undergoing or about to undergo training for the purpose of acquiring further professional qualifications or special professional experience and whose liability to render service under the Act has been deferred for a period that will expire after they attain the age of twenty-six years constitute a prescribed class of persons for the purposes of paragraph (d) of sub-section (1.) of section 25 of the Act.

Service outside Australia.

22.—(1.) A person may volunteer for service beyond the limits of Australia by posting or delivering to the District Employment Officer at the District Employment Office specified in his certificate of registration a signed statement in accordance with Form 3.

(2.) If a person volunteering for service beyond the limits of Australia is under the age of twenty-one years, the written consent of a parent or guardian of the person volunteering shall be endorsed on the form furnished by that person or that form shall have endorsed on it a certificate signed by a magistrate or a justice of the peace stating that the person so certifying is satisfied that the person volunteering understands that, if he is called up for service in the Citizen Naval Forces or the Citizen Air Force, he will be liable for service beyond the limits of Australia and that he so volunteers of his own free will.

Part V.—Exemption from Service.

Prescribed physical or mental disabilities.

23.A person who is—

(a) totally blind;

(b) a deaf mute;

(c) without a hand or a foot;

(d) so crippled as to require the permanent use of an artificial aid;

(e) subject to a physical or mental disability in respect of which he is in receipt of an invalid pension under the Social Services Consolidation Act 1947-1950 (whether in respect of defective vision or otherwise);

(f) subject to a mental disability in respect of which he is detained in or is a voluntary patient in any hospital, reception house, licensed house or other place, appointed or licensed under the law of any State for the reception of the insane; or

(g) suffering from tuberculosis for which he is undergoing treatment in a hospital or sanatorium,

is a person subject to a prescribed physical or mental disability, as the case requires, for the purposes of paragraph (a) of sub-section (1.) of section 29 of the Act.

Theological colleges and theological students.

24. For the purposes of paragraph (c) of sub-section (1.) of section 29 of the Act—

(a) institutions maintained solely for the instruction of students in the duties of a minister of religion are theological colleges; and

(b) persons whose time is wholly or substantially devoted to a course of instruction in the duties of a minister of religion, whether at a theological college or not, and whether or not the course of instruction for those duties is combined with a course of instruction for the duties of a school teacher, are theological students.

Application for certificate of exemption.

25. A registered person who considers himself to be exempt from liability to render service under this Act by virtue of the provisions of the Act (other than paragraph (b) of sub-section (1.) of section 29) and who has been informed in writing by the Secretary that he is not, in the opinion of the Secretary, exempt from liability to render that service, or

has been served with a notice requiring him to submit himself for medical examination under section 19 of the Act, may make an application for a certificate of exemption.

Manner of making application.

26.—(1.) An application for a certificate of exemption shall be in accordance with Form 4 and shall be posted or delivered to the District Employment Officer at the District Employment Office specified in the applicant’s certificate of registration.

(2.) The matters relied on in support of the application shall be set out in full in the application.

Reference to court.

27.On receipt of an application made under this Part, the District Employment Officer shall forward the application to the clerk of a competent court of summary jurisdiction who shall arrange for the application to be set down for hearing by the court and shall give to the District Employment Officer and the applicant not less than seven days’ notice in writing in accordance with Form 5 of the date, time and place fixed for hearing.

Grant of certificate of examination.

28.—(1.) If, upon the hearing of an application referred to it in accordance with the last preceding regulation, the court is satisfied that the applicant is exempt from liability to render service under the Act, the court shall issue to the applicant a certificate of exemption in accordance with Form 6, but, if the court is not so satisfied, it shall dismiss the application.

(2.) The clerk of the court shall, within seven days after the date of the grant of a certificate of exemption, forward a copy of the certificate to the District Employment Officer who forwarded the application to the court.

Signature on Production and surrender of certificate of exemption.

29. A person to whom a certificate of exemption has been granted in accordance with the last preceding regulation shall—

(a) complete the certificate by inserting his signature in the space provided for that purpose;

(b) produce the certificate to an authorized person when required to do so by the authorized person; and

(c) upon the cessation of the employment, condition or status on which the exemption is based, furnish notification in writing of that fact to the District Employment Officer specified in his certificate of registration and surrender his certificate of exemption to that officer.

Penalty: Twenty-five pounds or imprisonment for three months.

Notice of dismissal of application.

30. If, upon the hearing of an application referred to it under regulation 27 of these Regulations, the court, not being satisfied that the applicant is exempt from liability to render service under the Act, dismisses the application, the clerk of the court shall, within seven days after the date of the dismissal, forward notice in writing of the dismissal to the District Employment Officer who forwarded the application to the court.

Part VI.—Conscientious Objectors.

Application for exemption on conscientious grounds.

31. If a registered person claims that he holds a conscientious belief that does not allow him—

(a) to perform naval, military or air force service (whether combatant or non-combatant); or

(b) to perform combatant naval, military or air force duties,

he may make application for an order directing that he be registered as a person—

(c) exempt from liability to render service under the Act; or

(d) liable to be called up for service under the Act but to be employed only in duties of a non-combatant nature.

Manner of making application.

32.—(1.) An application under the last preceding regulation shall be in accordance with Form 7 and shall be posted or delivered to the District Employment Officer at the District Employment Office specified in the applicant’s certificate of registration.

(2.) The matters relied on in support of the application shall be set out in full in the application.

Reference of application to court

33. Upon receipt of an application made under this Part, the District Employment Officer shall forward the application to the clerk of a competent court of summary jurisdiction who shall arrange for the application to be set down for hearing by the court and shall give the District Employment Officer and the applicant not less than seven days’ notice in writing in accordance with Form 8 of the date, time and place fixed for the hearing.

Order of court.

34. If, upon the hearing of an application made under this Part, the court finds that the applicant holds a conscientious belief that does not allow him—

(a) to undertake naval, military or air force service (whether combatant or non-combatant); or

(b) to undertake naval, military or air force duties of a combatant nature,

the court shall direct—

(c) in any case to which paragraph (a) of this regulation applies—by order in accordance with Form 9 that the applicant be registered as a person exempt from liability to render service under the Act; or

(d) in any case to which paragraph (b) of this regulation applies—by order in accordance with Form 10 that the applicant be registered as a person liable to be called up for service under the Act but to be employed only in duties of a noncombatant nature,

but if the court does not so find, it shall make an order in accordance with Form 11 dismissing the application.

Evidence.

35. A court shall, in determining an application made under this Part, have regard (in addition to all other relevant considerations) to the extent to which the evidence of the applicant is corroborated, to the period during which the applicant claims to have held his conscientious belief and the circumstances in which he claims to have formed it and to have continued to hold it, but the court may, if it thinks fit, accept the evidence of the applicant, whether it is corroborated or not.

Copy of order to be forwarded to applicant and District Employment Officer.

36. The clerk of the court shall, within seven days after the making of an order under this Part, forward a copy of the order to the applicant and to the District Employment Officer who forwarded the application to the court.

Duties of persons liable for non-combatant duties.

37. The Naval Board, the Military Board and the Air Board shall make arrangements for securing that a person in respect of whom an order in accordance with Form 10 has been made shall be employed only in the duties specified in the order.

Signature on, production and surrender of, order.

38. A person in respect of whom an order has been made in accordance with Form 9 or Form 10 shall—

(a) upon receipt of the copy of the order, insert his signature in the space provided for that purpose in the copy of the order;

(b) produce the copy of the order to an authorized person when required to do so by the authorized person; and

(c) if he ceases to hold the conscientious belief on which the order was made, furnish notification in writing of that fact to the District Employment Officer specified in his certificate of registration and surrender the copy of the order to that officer.

Penalty: Twenty-five pounds or imprisonment for three months.

Part VII.—Deferment of Service on the Grounds of Exceptional Hardship.

Application for deferment of service.

39.A registered person who has been notified under regulation 20 of these Regulations that he is fit for service and claims that the rendering of service under the Act by him would impose exceptional hardship upon him or upon his parents or dependants may make application in accordance with Form 12 for deferment under sub-section (4.) of section 31 of the Act of his liability to render that service.

Manner of making application.

40.—(1.) The applicant shall post or deliver the form of application to the District Employment Officer at the District Employment Office specified in the applicant’s certificate of registration.

(2.) The matters relied on in support of an application shall be set out in full in the application.

Reference of application to court.

41.Upon receipt of an application made in accordance with this Part, the District Employment Officer shall forward the application to the clerk of a competent court of summary jurisdiction who shall arrange for the application to be set down for hearing before the court and shall give the District Employment Officer and the applicant not less than seven days’ notice in writing in accordance with Form 13 of the date, time and places fixed for the hearing.

Procedure.

42.The procedure with respect to the hearing of an application under sub-section (4.) of section 31 of the Act shall be as nearly as possible in accordance with the procedure of a court of petty sessions in civil matters.

Order of court.

43.—(1.) If, upon the hearing of an application under sub-section (4.) of section 31 of the Act, the court is satisfied that the rendering of service by the applicant should be deferred, the court may, by order in accordance with Form 14, defer the liability of the applicant to render service under the Act, but, if not so satisfied, the court shall dismiss the application.

(2.) The clerk of the court shall, within seven days after the making of an order under this Part, forward a copy of the order to the applicant and to the District Employment Officer who forwarded the application to the court.

(3.) If the court dismisses the application, the clerk of the court shall, within seven days after the date of dismissal, forward notice in writing of the dismissal to the District Employment Officer who forwarded the application to the court.

Signature on, production and surrender of, order.

44. A person in respect of whom an order has been made accordance with Form 14 shall—

(a) upon receipt of the copy of the order, insert his signature in the space provided for that purpose in the copy of the order;

(b) produce the copy of the order to an authorized person when required to do so by the authorized person; and

(c) upon the cessation of the grounds upon which the order was made, furnish notification of that fact to the District Employment Officer specified in his certificate of registration and surrender the copy of the order to that officer.

Penalty: Twenty-five pounds or imprisonment for three months.

Part VIII.—Fees.

Fees and allowances.

45. The fees payable to members of Medical Boards and to other medical practitioners who conduct medical examinations under the Act shall be as follows:—

Part IX.—Miscellaneous.

Exempt persons may request that they be called up for service.

46.—(1.) A person who is exempt from liability to register or render service under the Act may request the Secretary to call him up for—

(a) service limited to duties of a non-combatant nature only; or

(b) service not so limited.

(2.) A request under this regulation shall be in writing addressed to the Secretary and shall be posted or delivered to the District Employment Officer at the District Employment Office specified in the person’s

certificate of registration or, in the case of a person who is exempt from liability to register under the Act, at the District Employment Office nearest to his place of living.

(3.) If the Secretary grants a request made in pursuance of this regulation, he shall notify the person accordingly and that person may he called up in accordance with his request not withstanding that an order has been made exempting him from liability to serve under the Act.

Representation.

47. At the hearing of an application under these regulations—

(a) the Minister shall be entitled to be represented as a party;

(b) the Minister may be represented by counsel, solicitor or an officer of the Department; and

(c) the applicant may be represented by counsel, solicitor or duly authorized agent.

Fees and cost.

48.—(1.) No court fees shall be chargeable in respect of applications or proceedings under these Regulations.

(2.) No costs shall be allowed by the court in any proceedings under these Regulations not being proceedings for an offence against these Regulations.

False or misleading statements.

49. A person shall not, in any application, declaration, form or other document furnished for the purposes of the Act or these Regulations, make a statement, or furnish information, which is false or misleading.

Penalty: Twenty-five pounds or imprisonment for three months.

Compliance with forms.

50. Strict compliance with the forms in the Schedule to these Regulations shall not be necessary, and substantial compliance with those forms shall be sufficient.

THE SCHEDULE.

Form 1.

Section 13.

Regulation 7.

National Service Act 1951.

FORM OF REGISTRATION.

Instruction.—You must answer each question: if it does not apply to you,

write “Nil”.

1. Surname (in capital letters)

2. Christian Names (in full)

3. Usual Place of Living (in full), stating number, street, town or suburb, postal district (if any)

4. Local Government Area in which yon live, i.e., Municipality, Shire, District, Council, Roads Board District.

5. Date of Birth: The    day of    , 19

6. Country of Birth (if born in Australia, give State)

7. State whether “natural horn” or “naturalized” British subject. If naturalized, state place and date of naturalization and number of certificate of naturalization

8. If suffering from serious physical handicaps, e.g., blind or crippled, or in receipt of an invalid pension, give particulars

9A. If regularly employed or working, state—

(a) Business name and address of place where you are working

(b) Kind of business or industry in which you are working

(c) Your present occupation in that business or industry

(d) Whether you are apprenticed or articled (state which)

(e) If you are an evening or part-time student, state—

  (i) Name of educational establishment

 (ii) Course of study

(iii) Stage reached

9E. If not regularly employed or not working, state whether you are—

(a) a full-time student

(b) unemployed

If you are a full-time student, state—

  (i) Name of educational establishment

 (ii) Course of study

(iii) Stage reached

(iv) If you intend to continue full-time studies for some time or to

commence work in the near future, give full particulars (including, in the former case, the name of the educational establishment)

10. If you have any good reason for preferring any period of the year in which to perform national service, state which, and give reasons

11. If you desire to indicate a preference for service, insert “Navy”, “Army”, or “Air Force”, as the case may be, opposite your preference—

First preference Second preference

Third preference

12. If you are a member of, or have served in, a cadet training corps, e.g., R.A.N.R. Cadets, A.T.C., give particulars

13. To be completed only by those desiring to perform their national service earlier than normal. I wish to register for early national service for the following reasons:—

I declare that the above particulars are true and correct.

Usual signature Date

Form 2.

Section 14.

Regulation 8.

[Front of Form.]

National Service Act 1951.

CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION.

District Employment Office for the purpose of the National Service Regulations Usual signature of registered person

[Back of Form.]

I have changed my place of living To—

from that shown on the other side of this

card to: Registrar,

National Service Registration Office,

FORM 3.

Section 26 and 28

Regulation 22.

National Service Act 1951.

INSTRUMENT OF VOLUNTEERING.

(a) Insert full name of person volunteering. (b) Insert his address and occupation. * Strike out whichever is inapplicable.

 In purchases of sections 26 and 28 of the National Service Act 1951 ,

I, (a)  of (b)  , here by

required to undergo some, national service training beyond the limits of Australia.

 I also understand that under section 33 of the Act I shall remain a member of

liable to be called out, in time of war, for service which may be beyond the limits of Australia.

Dated this day of , 19 .

Signature.

THE SCHEDULE—continued.

CONSENT.

(Only to be completed if the person volunteering is under twenty-one years of age.)

of the above-named hereby consent to his volunteering for service oil the terms mentioned above.

Dated this day of , 19 .

Signature.

CERTIFICATE.

(Only to be completed by a Magistrate or Justice of the Peace if the above consent is not signed, and the person volunteering is under twenty-one years of age.)

I certify that I am satisfied that the above-named understands that if he is called up for service under the National Service Act 1951 with the Citizen Forces referred to he will be liable for service beyond the limits of Australia as stated above and that he has signed the instrument of his own free will.

Signature.

(Magistrate or Justice of the Peace.)

FORM 4.

National Service Act 1951.

Section 29.

Regulation 26.

APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATE OF EXEMPTION.

To the District Employment Officer,

(a) Insert full name of applicant. (b) Insert his address and occupation.

I, (a)  , of (b)

in pursuance of sub-regulation (1.) of regulation 20 of the National Service name of Regulations, hereby make application for a certificate of exemption from liability to render service under the National Service Act 1951.

I intend to rely on the following matters in support of my application:—

Dated this day of ,19 .

Signature of Applicant.

FORM 5.

Regulation 27.

National Service Act 1951.

NOTICE OF HEARING OF APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATE OF

EXEMPTION.

(a) Insert full name of applicant. (b) Insert his address and occupation.

Take notice that the application made by (a)

of (b)  , for a certificate of exemption from Liability to render service under the National Service Act 1951 will be heard

before  at 

on the   day of  , 19 , at  o’clock in the noon.

Dated this day of ,19        .

  Clerk of

To the District Employment Officer

and the above-mentioned applicant.

THE SCHEDULE—continued.

FORM 6.

Section 29.

Regulation 28.

National Service Act 1951.

CERTIFICATE OF EXEMPTION FROM LIABILITY TO RENDER SERVICE.

(a) Insert full name of registered person. (b) Insert his address and occupation.

In pursuance of sub-regulation (1.) of regulation 27 of the National Service Regulations, I hereby certify that (a)              ,

of (b)   is, by virtue of section 29 of the National Service Act 1951, exempt from liability to render service under the Act.

Dated this day of , 19  .

Signature of Magistrate.

Name of Court.

Signature of registered person.

FORM 7.

Section 29.

Regulation 32.

National Service Act 1951.

APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION AS A CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR.

(a) Insert full name of applicant. (b) Insert his address and occupation. * Strike out(a) or (b) whichever is inapplicable.

To the District Employment Officer,

I, (a)  , of (b).

in pursuance of regulation 31 of the National Service Regulations, hereby apply—

* (a) to be registered as a person exempt from liability to render service under the National Service Act 1951 on the ground that I hold a conscientious belief that does not allow me to perform naval, military, or air force service, whether combatant or non-combatant;

*(b) to be registered as a person liable to be called up for service under the National Service Act 1951 but to be employed in duties only of a non-combatant nature—on the ground that I hold a conscientious belief that does not allow me to perform combatant naval, military, or air force service;

and I submit the following facts in support of my application:—

Dated this day of  , 19 .

Signature of Applicant.

FORM 8.

Regulation 33.

National Service Act 1951.

NOTICE OF HEARING OF APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION AS A

CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR.

(a) Insert full name of applicant. (b) Insert his address and occupation.

Take notice that the application made by (a) ,

of (b) , for registration as a conscientious objector will be heard before              at

on the  day of , 19 , at

o’clock in the  noon.

Dated this day of , 19 .

Clerk of

To the District Employment Officer

 and the above-named applicant.

THE SCHEDULE—continued.

FORM 9.

Regulation 34.

National Service Act 1951.

ORDER OP EXEMPTION PROM LIABILITY TO RENDER SERVICE ON THE GROUND OF CONSCIENTIOUS BELIEF.

(a) Insert full name of applicant. (b) Insert his address and occupation.

Upon hearing the application of (a) ,

of (b)  , I find that he holds a conscientious name of belief that does not allow him to engage in any form of naval, military or air force service and he is, by virtue of the provisions of section 29 of the National Service Act 1951, exempt from liability to render service under that Act.

Dated this day of , 19 .

Signature of Magistrate.

Name of Court.

Signature of registered person.

FORM 10.

Regulation 34.

National Service Act 1951.

ORDER EXEMPTING A PERSON FROM LIABILITY TO UNDERTAKE COMBATANT DUTIES ON THE GROUND THAT HIS CONSCIENTIOUS BELIEF ALLOWS HIM TO UNDERTAKE NON-COMBATANT DUTIES ONLY.

(a) Insert full name of applicant. (b) Insert his address and occupation.

Upon hearing the application of (a) ,

of (b)  , I find that he holds a conscientious belief that does not allow him to undertake duties of a combatant nature but allows him to undertake naval, military or air force duties of a non-combatant nature and he is, by virtue of the provisions of section 29 of the Act, liable only to undertake such duties of a non-combatant nature.

Dated this  day of , 19 .

Signature of Magistrate.

Name of Court.

Signature of person named in this Order.

FORM 11.

Regulation 34.

National Service Act 1951.

ORDER DISMISSING APPLICATION UNDER REGULATION 34 OF THE NATIONAL SERVICE REGULATIONS.

(a) Insert full name of applicant. (b) Insert his address and occupation.

Upon hearing the application of (a) ,

of (b)  , I find that he does not hold conscientious belief that does not allow him to undertake naval, military or air force duties of a combatant or non-combatant nature and I accordingly dismiss the application.

Dated this  day of , 19 .

Signature of Magistrate.

Name of Court.

THE SCHEDULE—continued.

FORM 12.

Section 31.

Regulation 39.

National Service Act 1951.

APPLICATION FOR DEFERMENT OF LIABILITY TO RENDER SERVICE ON THE GROUND OF EXCEPTIONAL HARDSHIP.

(a) Insert full name of applicant. (b) Insert his address and occupation. *Strike out whichever is inapplicable.

To the District Employment Officer,

I, (a) , of (b)

in pursuance of sub-section (4.) of section 31 of the National Service Act 1951, apply for the deferment of my liability to render service under the Act on the

I intend to rely on the following matters in support of my application: —

Dated this  day of , 19 .

Signature of Applicant.

FORM 13.

Regulation 41.

National Service Act 1951.

NOTICE OF HEARING OF APPLICATION FOR DEFERMENT OF SERVICE.

(a) Insert full name of applicant. (b) Insert his address and occupation.

Take notice that the application made by (a) ,

of (b) , for deferment of liability to render service under the Act will be heard before               at

on the  day of  19 , at

o’clock in the  noon.

Dated this  day of , 19 .

Clerk of

To the District Employment Officer,

and the above-named applicant. of

FORM 14.

National Service Act 1951.

Section 31.

Regulation 43.

ORDER DEFERRING LIABILITY TO RENDER SERVICE ON THE GROUNDS OF EXCEPTIONAL HARDSHIP.

(a) Insert full name of applicant. (b) Insert his address and occupation. * Strike out whichever is inapplicable. † Strike out if no conditions are determined.

Upon hearing the application of (a) ,

of (b)  , I am satisfied that the applicant is

Service Act 1951, would impose exceptional hardship and I do hereby defer the

liability of the said (a)   for a period of  months.

†The deferment granted by me shall be subject to the following conditions:—

Dated this  day of , 19 .

Signature of Magistrate.

Name of Court.

Signature of person named in this Order.

By Authority: L. F. JOHNSTON, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.