REGULATIONS SOON

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 42, 18 August 1941, Page 6

REGULATIONS SOON

CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS

Discussing the policy of the tribunals that are to be set up to consider alternative service for conscientious objectors, to military service, the Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Nash) said last night that he expected the necessary regulations to be gazetted this week. The policy of the tribunals, said Mr Nash, would be to find a way so that the men would not make a profit by being conscientious objectors.

Cases which the Armed Services Appeals Boards had dismissed or upheld, or when alternative service had been ordered, would come before the tribunals, said Mr. Nash, when he was asked if he could make any comment to clarify the duties of the tribunals The Government had not laid down any formula; that was left to the tribunals First, those appeals which had been allowed would be considered. In considering cases in which boards had allowed appeals on condition that noncombatant service was given, the tribunals would consider the basis of that service. The Army might not be able to find non-combatant service and the tribunals would be charged with finding it. If the tribunals could not find alternative service and the objector wanted to remain at his ordinary job, the tribunals would be charged with telling him what he should pay out of his earnings. To the extent that the objector had to pay money, the tribunals would decide something with which the man himself would be satisfied.