This Act may be cited as the Military Training Amendment Act 1951, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Military Training Act 1949 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

Subject to the provisions of Part I of the principal Act, every male British subject ordinarily resident in New Zealand who was born during the year that commenced on the first day of November, nineteen hundred and thirty, and ended with the thirty-first day of October, nineteen hundred and thirty-one, and is not a person specified in section five of the principal Act, shall be liable to be called upon to serve in the armed forces for a term of whole time service, a term of part time service, and a term of service in the Reserve as provided in Part I of the principal Act, and, subject to this section, the principal Act, as far as it is applicable and with the necessary modifications, shall apply accordingly.

Every person to whom this section applies shall become subject to registration on the first day of November, nineteen hundred and fifty-one.

Subject to the provisions of Part I of the principal Act, every male British subject ordinarily resident in New Zealand who was born during the year that commenced on the first day of November, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, and ended with the thirty-first day of October, nineteen hundred and thirty, and is not a person specified in section five of the principal Act, shall be liable to be called upon to serve in the Reserve for four years, and subject to this section, the principal Act, as far as it is applicable and with the necessary modifications, shall apply accordingly.

Every person to whom this section applies shall become subject to registration on the first day of May, nineteen hundred and fifty-two.

Any enlistment notice served on any person to whom this section applies shall state that he has been enlisted in the Army Reserve, or in the appropriate Reserve of the New Zealand Naval Forces, or in the Air Force Reserve, as the Director thinks fit.

Section thirteen of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from subsection two the word “Minister”, and substituting the word “Director”.

Section eleven of the principal Act is hereby consequentially amended by inserting in subsection four, before the words “the approval of registered medical practitioners”, the words “to advise the Director in the exercise of his functions in relation to”.

The said section eleven is hereby further consequentially amended by revoking subsection five, and substituting the following subsection:—

Section eighteen of the principal Act is hereby amended as follows:—