ARE YOU ENROLLED?

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3019, 5 March 1917, Page 6

ARE YOU ENROLLED?

A MILITARY SERVICE ACT

PROSECUTION POWERS OF THE POLICE A man was arrested by the police at Kilbimie ou Saturday for failing, it is alleged, to answer questions put to him by a police officer regarding enrolment in tlio Expeditionary Force .Tieserve.

This charge has not previously "been preferred against any man in this district, but tho experience of being accosted by a policeman and questioned regarding enrolment may not be uncommon shortly. The section of the Act under which the police proceed is as follows:— "(1) After the enrolment of the First Division of the Reserve, or » of any class thereof, has been proclaimed and directed, any constable may question any man who may reasonably bo supposed to he of military ago as to any or all of the following matters, namely: His name, occupation, and abode, the date and place of his birth, his enrolment in the Reserve, and any other matters relevant to the question of his membership of the Reserve or of any division or class thereof, or his membership of. the '* Expeditionary Force. "(2) Any man who fails or refuses forthwith to answer any question so put to him, or who answers any such question in a false or wilfully misleading manner, shall bo guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction by imprisonment for any term not' exceeding three months, or by a fine of not more than fifty pounds, and any man reasonably suspected of_ any such offence may bo detained by any constable and brought before a Justice of the Peace to be dealt wif h according to law."

In order to avoid complications, Reservists, whether in the First or the Second Division, -will be well advised to carry with them their certificates of enrolment, if'they can safely and conveniently do so.'