DEFAULTERS' LIST

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 97, 18 January 1919, Page 6

DEFAULTERS' LIST

REGULATIONS REGARDING AP<- ..... .PEALS,. ~..•■ Regulations' governing l the' making and' hearing of appeals . b,v person* whoso names aro -included in llic Military Defaulters' List were gazetted yesterday. ' The Expeditionary ForcesAmendment .Act: of Inst- session provided tlnit any ma ir whoso name 'is in(jluded in .the list shall have the right of appeal, to a Magistrate, If ho can show that ho did not evade, military service wilfully his name will ho removed from the list,, and he will cease to lie subject to loss of civil rights. • Every appeal is to he made in the form''prescribed by'tlie' regulation, and is.to be sent hv" registered mist to the ' Minister of Defence,' jii Wellington, ■ within three months after tho publication of the Gazette -containing tho list. Tho Minister--will • refer the. appeal-.to a Magistrate,- who will have jurisdiction to dealwithit.''

The -'Miniscr of Defence will-be the ,res|>6ndent; in; every appeal,"and will be entitled'.to. he heard by any solicitor or. by., any .officer: of. the; ■.'Defence Forces. ... The- appellant will bo entitled to be. heard:personally or by any solicitor. ■■• . -.-• .1 ■■'■.'

■On an; appeal-the Magistrate may 'receive such evidence as he thinks' fit, whether legally admissible 'in other .proceedings;or not.' ■* Any notice' in the matter'o'f.an. appeal may be given to tlie, appellant, either personally or by posting it to the address for, service in-, the notice .of appeal." If an appellant :makes default in,appearing at the hearing of -the.appeal,:-the.-Magistrate may'either adjourn tho; hearing or dismiss tlie appeal.' ■ 1 • -,-v .-■