HC Deb 28 January 1918 vol 101 cc1353-4

(1) If any male person at any time registered under the principal Act changes his profession or occupation as registered in his certificate of registration, 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 ill the register.

For the purpose of the foregoing provision any male person registered under the principal Act at the date of the passing of this Act whose profession or occupation at that date does not correspond with his profession or occupation as specified in his certificate of registration, or if his profession or occupation is not as specified with his profession or occupation as on the date when he was registered, shall be deemed to have changed his profession or occupation as on the date of the passing of this Act.

The appointed time for the purpose of the foregoing provision means, in the case of a person who changes or is deemed to have changed his profession or occupation on or at any time within twenty-one days after the date of the passing of this Act twenty-eight days from that date, and in the case of any other person seven days from the date of the change.

(2) Any male person who has lost his certificate of registration, whether he is required by this Section to send his certificate of registration to the local registration authority or not and whether the loss occurred before or after the passing of this Act, shall, as soon as he becomes aware thereof, notify the loss to the local registration authority of the district in which his place of residence is situate, and for that purpose obtain, fill up, sign, and send or deliver by post or otherwise to that authority, notice in the prescribed form of the loss, and there shall be supplied to him a fresh certificate of registration.

Amendments made: In Sub-section (1), leave out the words "as registered in his certificate of registration," and insert instead thereof the words "so that it ceases to correspond with his profession or occupation as specified in a 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."

In Sub-section (1) paragraph (2), leave out the word "passing" ["at the date of the passing"], and insert the word "commencement."

At the end of the same Sub-section, leave out the word "passing," and insert the word "commencement."

In paragraph (3), leave out the words "twenty-one" ["twenty-one days"], and insert the word "fourteen."

In the same paragraph, leave out the word. "seven" ["seven days"], and insert the word "fourteen."

In Sub-section (2), leave out the word "passing" ["occurred before or after the passing of this Act"], and insert the word "commencement."—[Mr. Fisher.]