National Registration (Amendment) Act 1918
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1918 c. 60 |
| Year | 1918 |
National Registration (Amendment) Act, 1918
(7 & 8 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 60.
An Act to extend and amend the National Registration Act, 1915.
[6th February 1918]
Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Extension of classes of persons to be registered.
1. The Register formed under the National Registration Act, 1915(hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), shall, in addition to the persons mentioned in section one of that Act, include the following persons:—
and all such persons shall be deemed to be persons required to register themselves under the principal Act, and when registered shall be deemed to be registered under the principal Act.
2 Duties of persons to register.
(1) It shall be the duty of every male person who, by virtue of this Act, is liable to register himself under the principal Act, or who was liable to register himself under the principal Act but has failed so to do before the commencement of this Act, to cause himself to be registered, and for that purpose before the appointed date to obtain, fill up, sign, and send or deliver to the local registration authority, by post or otherwise, a form containing the particulars mentioned in section four of the principal Act or such of those particulars as may be prescribed, together with particulars as to whether he is or is not a person who has been discharged from His Majesty's forces, and if he is such a person as to the portion of the forces from which he was discharged, and as to such further matters (being matters with respect to which it is desirable that information should be given by persons on registration with a view to their obtaining advantageous employment) as may be prescribed.
The appointed date for the purposes of this section shall, as respects persons who come within the operation of this section on the date of the commencement of this Act, or within fourteen days thereafter, be the twenty-eighth day after that date, and in the case of any other persons be the fourteenth day after the date on which they come within the operation of this section.
(2) Sections five, six, and thirteen of the principal Act (which relate respectively to the completion and correction of forms, to the right to certificates of registration and to penalties) shall have effect as if references therein to forms included a reference to forms under this Act.
3 Duty of certain persons to notify changes of occupation and loss of certificates.
(1) If any male person at any time registered under the principal Act changes his profession or occupation so that it ceases to correspond with his profession or occupation as specified in his certificate of registration or, if his profession or occupation is not so specified, with his profession or occupation as on the date when he was registered, he shall within the appointed time notify the change to the local registration authority, and for that purpose send or deliver to that authority, by post or otherwise, his certificate of registration with his new profession or occupation noted thereon, and there shall be supplied to him a fresh certificate of registration, and the change shall be noted in the register.
For the purpose of the foregoing provision any male person registered under the principal Act at the date of the commencement of this Act whose profession or occupation at that date does not correspond...
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