National service regulations

(1) The Governor-General may, after consultation with the Prime Minister, make regulations providing for the calling out of men for national service. (2) The regulations shall provide for, (a) the age and numbers of the persons to be called out; (b) the form of notice paper to be used; 106 (c) the place at which the persons called out are to report; and (d) any other matters which may be considered necessary and desirable. (3) Where a man has been called out for national service he shall be deemed to have been called out with effect from the date of his reporting, or the date specified in the notice paper requiring him to report, whichever is the earlier. (4) A notice paper requiring a man to report may be served either by it being delivered to him personally, being left at his last known address or being sent by registered post addressed to him at his last known address. (5) A man who has been called out shall be deemed to be subject to military law under the provisions of section 164 (1) (a), as from the date of reporting or the date on which he should have reported. (6) If the period of service of a man called out under the provisions of the regulations made under this section expires during the time that members of the volunteer element have been called out on permanent service under the provisions of section 121, he shall be deemed to remain in the service until his services are no longer required. (7) The provisions of section 126, shall apply mutatis mutandis to a man who fails to report in accordance with the instructions contained in the notice paper.