§ Mr. PROTHEROasked the Secretary of State for War whether a man who on enlistment under the group system, or under the Military Service Act, gave his age as less than forty-one, and subsequently found that by his birth certificate he was over forty-one years of age at the time when he enlisted, and consequently was not then and never has been subject to the Military Service Act, can claim his discharge?
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§ Mr. FORSTERIf the case referred to is that of a man deemed to have been enlisted under the Military Service Acts, he will, on production of a birth certificate which applies to him and supports the accuracy of his statement as to being over age at the appointed day, be legally excepted from the Acts, and his mobilisation will be cancelled. If he is a voluntarily attested man, the matter is one for the Army Council to decide when the full facts of the case are laid before it.