EMERGENCY RESERVE CORPS

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23944, 11 May 1943, Page 2

EMERGENCY RESERVE CORPS

EXEMPTIONS FROM SERVICE Exemptions against service in the Emergency Reserve Corps, in which males between 18 and (36 not actively attached to any of the forces (including the Home Guard) must s.erve, were defined in amending regulations issued last week. The object of the regulations is to remove an anomaly that the previous order to enrol did not apply to men who had ceased to be members of the general reserve because they had been called by ballots but had not been attached to any of the forces. The exemptions are as follows: Judges, Ministers of the Crown, stipendiary magistrates, members of the Police Force, men serving in merchant ships, men who have been discharged from any branch of the corps on the ground of permanent medical unfitness, men in receipt of war Persians in respect of their permanent disablement, in cases where the rate of pension allotted is not less than 75 per cent, of the rate prescribed for permanent total disablement, men who have been discharged from any branch of the armed forces after serving overseas in the present war, men in receipt of invalids’ benefits, inmates of any hospital or of the New Zealand Institute for the Blind, men in respect of whom receptionorders are in force under the Mental Defectives Act. 1911, or who are detained as voluntary boarders under that act, men undergoing sentences of imprisonment, or detained in Borstal Institutions, or undergoing defaulters' detention.