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Provisions) Act, 1916.

(2) This Act, except the provisions of sections two, three, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen and paragraph (4) of section twentythree thereof, shall have effect only during the continuance of the present war and afterwards for such period or periods (if any) not exceeding one year as the Local Government Board may fix; and the Board may fix different periods for different provisions of the Act.

CHAPTER 13.

An Act to amend the Courts (Emergency Powers) Act,
1914, in relation to officers and men of His Majesty's
forces.
[17th May 1916.]

BE

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. The Courts (Emergency Powers) Act, 1914 (herein-after Modification referred to as the "principal Act "), shall have effect in favour of principal of officers and men of His Majesty's forces, with the following members of Act as respects modifications, that is to say:

His Majesty's forces.

4 & 5 Geo. 5.

(a) Subsection (1) of section one shall apply to any sum of
money due and payable in pursuance of a contract c. 78.
made before the commencement of this Act, whether
such contract was made before or after the beginning
of the fourth day of August nineteen hundred and
fourteen :

(b) The discretionary powers conferred upon the courts by
subsections (2) and (3) of section one may be exercised
although the debtor's inability to pay may not be due
to circumstances attributable directly or indirectly
to the present war.

to determine

members of His Majesty's forces.

2. Any officer or man of His Majesty's forces who is the Power of tenant of any premises under a tenancy from year to year, or for county courts any longer period, may apply to the county court, or in Scotland leases to the sheriff court, for the district in which he usually resides, or in which such premises are situate, in such manner as may be prescribed by rules or directions under the principal Act, for leave to determine such tenancy, and, upon any such application being made, the court may, in its absolute discretion, after considering all the circumstances of the case and the position of all the parties, by order authorise the applicant to determine the tenancy by such notice and upon such conditions as the court thinks fit, and thereupon such tenancy may, notwithstanding any provision in the tenancy agreement or lease, be determined accordingly.

(Amendment) Act, 1916.

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and com

mencement.

c. 19.

3.-(1) This Act may be cited as the Courts (Emergency Powers) (Amendment) Act, 1916, and shall be read with the

5 & 6 Geo. 5. principal Act; and the principal Act, the Courts (Emergency Powers) (Ireland) Act, 1914, and this Act may be cited together as the Courts (Emergency Powers) Acts, 1914 and 1916.

(2) This Act shall have effect as from the eleventh day of April nineteen hundred and sixteen, and shall be deemed to have been in operation as from that date.

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Time in summer months.

CHAPTER 14.

An Act to provide for the Time in Great Britain and Ireland being in advance of Greenwich and Dublin mean time respectively in the summer months.

BE

[17th May 1916.]

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.-(1) During the prescribed period in each year in which this Act is in force, the time for general purposes in Great Britain shall be one hour in advance of Greenwich mean time.

(2) This Act shall be in force in the year nineteen hundred and sixteen, and in that year the prescribed period shall be from two o'clock in the morning Greenwich mean time on Sunday the twenty-first day of May until two o'clock in the morning Greenwich mean time on Sunday the first day of October, and His Majesty may in any subsequent year, by Order in Council made during the continuance of the present war, declare this Act to be in force during that year, and in such case the prescribed period in that year shall be such period as may be fixed by the Order in Council.

(3) Wherever any expression of time occurs in any Act of Parliament, Order in Council, order, regulation, rule, or byelaw, or in any deed, time table, notice, advertisement, or other document, the time mentioned or referred to shall be held, during the prescribed period, to be the time as fixed by this Act:

Provided that where in consequence of this Act it is expedient that any time fixed by any byelaw, regulation, or other instrument should be adjusted and such adjustment cannot be effected except after the lapse of a certain interval or on compliance with certain conditions, the appropriate Government Department may, on the application of the body or person by whom the byelaw, regulation, or other instrument was made or is administered, make such adjustment in the time so fixed as in

the circumstances may seem to the Department proper, and if any question arises as to what Government Department is the appropriate Government Department, the question shall be finally determined by the Treasury.

(4) This Act shall apply to Ireland in like manner as it applies to Great Britain, with the substitution however of references to Dublin mean time for references to Greenwich mean time.

(5) Nothing in this Act shall affect the use of Greenwich mean time for purposes of astronomy, meteorology, or navigation, or affect the construction of any document mentioning or referring to tine in connexion with such purposes as aforesaid.

2. This Act may be cited as the Summer Time Act, 1916.

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CHAPTER 15.

An Act to make further provision with respect to Military
Service during the present War. [25th May 1916.]

BE

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:

operation of

5 & 6 Geo. 5.

1. (1) Every male British subject who has at any time Extension and since the fourteenth day of August nineteen hundred and fifteen continued been, or for the time being is, ordinarily resident in Great Britain, Military Serand who for the time being has attained the age of eighteen vice Act, 1916, years and has not attained the age of forty-one years, shall, c. 10. unless he either is for the time being within the exceptions set out in the First Schedule to the Military Service Act, 1916 (in this Act referred to as the principal Act), as amended by this Act or any subsequent enactment, or has attained the age of forty-one years before the appointed date, be deemed as from the appointed date to have been duly enlisted in his Majesty's regular forces for general service with the colours or in the reserve for the period of the war, and to have been forthwith transferred to the reserve:

Provided that steps shall be taken to prevent so far as possible the sending of men to serve abroad before they attain the age of nineteen.

The appointed date shall, as respects men who come within. the operation of this section on the passing of this Act, be the thirtieth day after the date of the passing of this Act, and, as respects men who come within the operation of this section after the passing of this Act, be the thirtieth day after the date on which they so come within the operation of this section.

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Prolongation of expiring terms of service.

c. 58.

7 Edw. 7. c. 9.

Modification

from service.

(Session 2).

(2) All the provisions of the principal Act, as amended by this Act, with the exception of those defining the appointed date, shall, so far as applicable, extend to men to whom this section applies in the same manner as to men to whom section one of that Act applied.

(3) Subsection (4) of section one of the principal Act is hereby repealed.

2. During the continuance of the present war, subsection (1) of section eighty-seven of the Army Act, and subsection (5) of section nine of the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act, 1907 (which relate to prolongation of service in certain cases), shall have effect as if after the words "not exceeding twelve months" where they occur in those subsections respectively there were inserted the words "or in the case of men whose time for discharge occurs before the end of the present war not exceeding the duration of the war":

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Provided that this section shall not apply in the case of men who when their time for discharge occurs have served a period of twelve years or more and have attained the age of forty-one years.

3.-(1) Paragraph five of the First Schedule to the principal of exceptions Act shall cease to have effect so far as it relates to men who have been discharged from the naval or military service of the Crown on the termination of their period of service:

Provisions as to certificates of exemption.

Provided that where a man is transferred to the reserve in pursuance of the principal Act, or this Act, he shall, if he has been so discharged from the military service of the Crown as a warrant officer or non-commissioned officer, be restored to the military rank which he held immediately before the termination of his military service.

(2) Paragraph six of the First Schedule to the principal Act shall, on the first day of September nineteen hundred and sixteen, cease to apply to a man who has offered himself for enlistment and been rejected since the fourteenth day of August nineteen hundred and fifteen, if the Army Council are satisfied that he should again present himself for medical examination, and send him written notice to that effect before the first mentioned date.

(3) Subsection (5) of section two of the principal Act shall have effect as if the words "before the appointed date" were omitted therefrom.

4.-(1) Where a decision of a local tribunal has been varied on appeal to the appeal tribunal, any certificate of exemption granted in pursuance thereof shall be reviewed or renewed only by the appeal tribunal by whom the decision has been varied, or by such other appeal tribunal as may be provided by regulations, on an application made direct to that tribunal, and the

(Session 2).

provisions of the principal Act as to the review or renewal of certificates of exemption shall apply accordingly.

(2) A certificate of exemption may be granted under the principal Act subject to the condition that the certificate shall not be renewable or open to variation except on an application made with the leave of the tribunal on whose decision the certificate has been so granted, and, unless leave is so given, the provisions of the principal Act as to the renewal or variation of certificates shall not apply to a certificate granted subject to such a condition.

The decision of the tribunal granting or refusing leave under this provision shall be final.

(3) It is hereby declared that the power to grant special certificates of exemption in the case of an application on conscientious grounds under subsection (3) of section two of the principal Act is additional to and not in derogation of the general power conferred by that Act to grant an absolute, conditional, or temporary certificate in such cases.

(4) Paragraph six of the Second Schedule to the principal Act shall have effect as if for the expression "local tribunals wherever that expression occurs there were substituted the word "tribunals."

(5) Regulations made under the Second Schedule to the principal Act may provide for permitting the rehearing of a case by a tribunal in cases specified in the regulations.

principal Act.

5. The provision in subsection (3) of section two of the Amendment of principal Act that no certificate of exemption shall be condi- s. 2 (3) of tional upon a person to whom it is granted continuing in or entering into employment under any specified employer or in any specified place or establishment, shall not apply to a certificate of exemption granted on the ground of a conscientious objection to the undertaking of combatant service.

6. Subsection (3) of section three of the principal Act shall, Amendment of as respects certificates which cease to be in force after the date s. 3 (3) of principal Act. of the passing of this Act, apply only in the case of men who have been engaged in an occupation certified by a government department to be work of national importance, and who were engaged in such an occupation before the fifteenth day of August nineteen hundred and fifteen, and in the case of men whose conditions of employment have been subject to the provisions of section seven of the Munitions of War Act, 1915, as 5 & 6 Geo. 5. amended by any subsequent enactment, and who were in the c. 5. same employment or engaged in the same or similar occupation before the fifteenth day of August nineteen hundred and fifteen, and in all other cases the subsection shall be construed as if "two weeks" were substituted for "two months," and as if the words "unless in the meantime the man has made an application for a renewal of his certificate" were substituted for the words.

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