E.P.S. WORK
Meaning Of Recent Regulations Commenting yesterday oil a reported statement in Auckland that regulatious recently issued had the effect of making membership of the Emergency Precautions Scheme organization compulsory, the Director of National Service, Mr. J. S. Hunter, said it was not intended that the present practice should be changed. Since the introduction ot the National Service Emergency Regulations, the Minister has had the power of directing any person to perform E.P.S. work, but that power has never beeu used, and the only element of compulsion at present existing in E.P.S. service is in the case of men subject to a direction to that effect oy Armed Forces Appeal Boards. It is intended to continue thus. Last month the Emergency Reserve Corps Regulations were issued. They outlined more fully the definition of membership of the E.P.S. for pension and kindred purposes and stated inter alia that a member remains a member till he is lawfully discharged. Presumably it is from this provision, which in practice will not niter the existing position, that the Auckland report arose.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 43, 14 November 1941, Page 8
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