APPRENTICES ON WAR SERVICE

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23360, 20 June 1941, Page 8

APPRENTICES ON WAR SERVICE

REGULATIONS AMENDED

(P.A.) WELLINGTON, June 19. Amendments to both the Occupational Re-establishment Emergency Regulations, 1940, and the suspension of the Apprenticeship Emergency Regulations, 1939, provide that for the purposes of both sets of regulations “His Majesty’s Forces" shall apply, whether that force is raised in New Zealand or elsewhere. The amendments also provide that “military service” shall mean continuous whole-time service, not only in the forces, but also as radio operator where such service is for the duration only, and commences after the date of the Shipping Emergency Regulations, 1941, which require the carrying of additional radio operators on ships in the New Zealand Mercantile Marine.

In the ..case of apprentices undergoing territorial training,-the-special provisions set out in the regulations shall prevail. The regulation has been redrafted to clarify the position-of the suspension of contracts of apprenticeship while apprentices are on military service, and to their revival on the return of apprentices to their civil employment. Further redrafting of the regulations provides that every period of territorial training shall _ count for the purposes of calculating increments in wages; but should be made up at the end of the apprenticeship term under such conditions as may be laid down by the apprenticeship committee. The definition of “military service” is also amended in the Occupational Re-establishment Emergency Regulations for the purpose of ensuring that the regulations apply where a worker is serving in any of His Majesty’s Forces, whether raised in New Zealand or elsewhere.