National Service (Release of Conscientious Objectors) Act 1946
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1946 c. 38 |
| Year | 1946 |
National Service (Release of Conscientious Objectors) Act, 1946
(9 & 10 Geo. 6.) CHAPTER 38.
An Act to enable conscientious objectors conditionally registered under the National Service Acts, 1939 to 1942, to be released, before the date on which the present emergency is deemed to end for the purposes of those Acts, from the condition subject to which they were registered.
[26th March 1946]
B E 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 Release of conditionally registered conscientious objectors.
(1) At any time after the date fixed, under arrangements for the release from army service of persons called up for service under the National Service (Armed Forces) Act, 1939 (in this Act referred to as the ‘Act of 1939’) for completing the release from such service of persons of all ranks in any group who are released by reference to their group, the Minister of Labour and National Service may direct that any conditionally registered conscientious objector of the same group shall, as from the giving of the direction, be released from the obligation to undertake work subject to which he was so registered.
Immediately after a direction has been given under this subsection a copy thereof shall be sent by post to the person to whom the direction relates at his last known address.
(2) Where the said Minister is satisfied that having regard to the previous employment or special qualifications of any conditionally registered conscientious objector it is expedient that he should be released as aforesaid for the purpose of undertaking work of national importance, and that under arrangements for the release for the said purpose of persons called up as aforesaid persons of similar previous employment or special qualifications have been released from army service, the Minister may give a direction under subsection (1) of this section relating to the objector in question notwithstanding that the date fixed for completing the release from army service of persons in his group has not passed.
(3) Notwithstanding anything in subsection (1) of this section, a direction thereunder relating to a conditionally registered conscientious objector who is a married woman not living apart from her husband under a decree or order of any...
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