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mail to the last-named address of such registrant a new. notice of final classification on Form 1007 indorsing on the face of Form 1007 the words "Final Classification by the President."

Section 116. Registrants to report change of status.

Every registrant shall, within five days after the happening thereof, report to his Local Board any fact which might change or affect his classification.

Failure to report change of status as herein required, or making a false report thereof, is a misdemeanor punishable by one year's imprisonment.

Effect of failure to report.

on change of

Section 117. Reclassification upon change of status Reclassification to be made on motion of board and not upon status. claim of registrant.

Registrants must report change of status as prescribed in section 116, but all reclassification on account of change of status in relation to matters other than engagement in industry or agriculture shall be made on the motion of the Local Board, and all reclassification on account of change of status as to engagement in industry or agriculture shall be made upon the motion of the District Board.

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Whenever any such reclassification is made by either Local or District board, the registrant shall be notified in the usual manner, and thereafter the case shall proceed in accordance with these regulations as though it were one of original classification, with the usual notices, rights of appeal, and periods of time as herein prescribed, but no registrant shall have any right to submit a claim Registrant may for reclassification on the ground of change of status; no fication on change Local or District Board shall have jurisdiction to receive of status. a claim for reclassification on the ground of change of refusal to restatus; and from the failure of the Local or District change of status, Board to reclassify on the ground of any alleged change of status there shall be no appeal. Section 118. Local Boards to keep informed of the status of registrants in deferred classes.

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Local Boards shall keep themselves informed as to the status of registrants in deferred classes. They may call upon a registrant to report at any time or at stated intervals in regard to his status; they may request the local police authority or the Government Appeal Agent to investigate the status of any registrant; or they may investigate such status themselves and summon wit- Witnesses; se nesses to testify in relation thereto as prescribed in section 9. It is hereby made the duty of any police offi- Duty of police cial or Government Appeal Agent to report to Local to investigate. Boards any fact that may come to his attention respecting the change of status of a registrant in a deferred classification and to investigate and report upon the status of any registrant when requested to do so by a Local Board.

Change of sta-Section 119. Local Boards to report to District tus reported by Local to District Boards any change of status of registrant reBoard. quiring reclassification on the ground of engagement in industry or agriculture. Whenever, through the report of a registrant or in any other manner, a Local Board obtains information indicating that a reclassification of a registrant should be made on the ground of his engagement in industry or agriculture, the Local Board shall report all the facts so obtained to the District Board together with a specific recommendation as to whether or not a reclassification should be made.

Section 120. Procedure for reclassification by a local Board.

Whenever a Local Board decides to reclassify a registrant on any ground other than engagement in industry or agriculture, it shall enter the name of the registrant at the bottom of the Classification List as prescribed in section 90, shall proceed to reclassify the registrant, and Entry on classi- shall send him a notice of classification as prescribed in section 103. Thereafter the case shall proceed in accordance with these regulations as though it were one of original classification.

fication list, see sec. 90.

Notice; see sec.

103.

District Boards' reclassification.

Section 121. Procedure for reclassification by a
District Board.

Whenever, either on information obtained by itself or on information reported by a Local Board, a District Board decides to consider a case for reclassification it shall request the Local Board to send up the record in the case. The Local Board shall promptly forward the complete record except the Cover Sheet, in lieu of which shall be forwarded an exact duplicate thereof. Upon receipt of the record the District Board shall either reclassify the case or adhere to the former classification and shall return the record to the Local Board with its action indorsed thereon in the usual manner. If a reclassification has been made upon the motion of a District Board as herein provided, the Local Board shall enter the name of the registrant at the bottom of the Classification List, as preEntry on classi scribed in section 90, shall notify the registrant of the reclassification by the District Board as prescribed in section 109. Thereafter the case shall proceed in all respects as though it were one of original classification by the District Board.

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Notice; see sec.

109.

See Part VIII.

C. PHYSICAL EXAMINATION.

Section 122. Physical examination.

Beginning on such date or dates as the Provost Marshal General shall hereafter fix for the beginning of the physical examination of all or any number or proportion of registrants, and after a registrant has been placed in Class I by a District Board (regardless of any appeal to

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peal; see sec. 104. Notice to ap

pear; see sec. 281.

the President in his case) or, if no appeal or claim is Physical exammade before the District Board, then after the lapsing oftime for appeal from the placing of the registrant in Class I by the Local Board, the Local Board shall mail to the last known address of any registrant placed in Class I a notice (Form 1009) to appear for physical examination at a time and place to be designated in said notice (which time shall be five days from the date of the mailing of the notice), and shall enter the date of mailing of said notice in Column 19 of the Classification List.

Upon appearance of the registrant he shall be examined as provided in Part VIII hereof, and the date of his examination shall be entered in column 20 of the Classification List. The examining physician shall immediately enter his report and recommendation in triplicate on the report of physical examination (Form 1010), shall then and there inform the registrant of his conclusion as to whether the registrant is qualified or disqualified for see sec. 282 general military service or qualified for limited military service in some specified capacity, and shall forthwith submit his report to the Local Board.

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If the registrant is not satisfied with such conclusion he Request to be shall then and there record, in the place provided on Form ical advisory 1010, a request to be sent before a Medical Advisory Board. Failure to make this request on the day the registrant is examined and informed of the examining physician's conclusion shall foreclose the right of the registrant to appeal the finding of the Local Board on the physical qualification of the registrant.

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The same procedure as to physical examination Other vided in these regulations for registrants in Class I shall' also apply to all registrants who have been placed in a class more deferred than Class I, so soon as the immediately preceding or earlier class has been exhausted by calls into the military service and not before, except as provided in sections 128, 149, and 150.

NOTE.-Whether the examining physician of the Local Board is in doubt or not as to the physical qualification of a registrant for military service he shall nevertheless definitely report the registrant either as qualified or disqualified, and if he is in doubt as to such qualification or disqualification he may request to have the registrant sent before a Medical Advisory Board as prescribed in section 123. Section 123. Sending doubtful cases to a Medical Advisory Board.

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If the examining physician is in doubt as to whether the Doubtful cases, registrant is to be held for military service, or if the exam-qualified. ining physician finds the registrant to be qualified for military service and either the Government Appeal Agent, the registrant, or two members of the Local Board, are dissatisfied with such finding, such examining physician, Government Appeal Agent, members of the Local Board, or registrant may apply to the Local Board to have the registrant sent before the nearest Medical Advisory sory Board; see Board (provided in sections 29 and 44 hereof) for an sec. 29. exhaustive reexamination. Such application shall be

Medical Advi

ination.

Form 1010; see sec. 282.

Physical exam- made by entering it in the place provided in Form 1010. Thereupon the Local Board shall, unless it decides by unanimous vote that the case is one in which there is no room for reasonable doubt, immediately send the registrant before such Medical Advisory Board, forwarding to the Medical Advisory Board the examining physician's report (Form 1010) in triplicate and, where necessary, and when the registrant is not sent at his own requestl furnishing the registrant with transportation and mea, and lodging tickets for the time during which he will be before such Medical Advisory Board, in no case to exceed three days.

qualified.

If the registrant is held to be physically disqualified by the examining physician, the Local Board shall, unless it Where held dis- decides by unanimous vote that the disqualification is so obvious as to leave no room for reasonable doubt, send the registrant before such Medical Advisory Board in the manner just provided.

Findings

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corded on Form 1010.

Advisoryboard's report; see sec. 123.

Entry of find

Upon reference of a case from a Local Board as just provided, the Medical Advisory Board shall examine the registrant, record its findings in triplicate on Form 1010, and return all three copies of Form 1010 to the Local Board, with the conclusion and recommendation in the case.

Section 124. Finding by Local Board as to physical qualification.

Upon receipt of the report and recommendation of the Medical Advisory Board as provided in section 123, or, if the case has not been sent to the Medical Advisory Board, then upon the receipt of the report of the examining physician, the Local Board shall make its decision as to the physical qualification of the registrant. If the registrant is found physically disqualified for general military service, the Local Board shall cancel the cross ing; see sec. 102. mark (X) or cipher (0) which has already been entered in a classification column by drawing a red-ink line through such cross mark or cipher and shall enter the classification of the registrant in Class V, column 12. If the registrant is found, in accordance with section 122 hereof, to be physically disqualified for general military Qualified for service, but qualified to perform special and limited military service, his place in the classification column shall not be changed, but the Local Board shall, with red ink, inscribe a bold circle around the cross mark (X) or cipher (0) in such classification column. (See Sec. 188, Part VIII.)

special service; see sec. 122.

While men found disqualified for general military service but qualified for special and limited military service are not placed in Class V, they are subject to induction into military service only when a special or specific call for men disqualified

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for general military service and qualified for special Physical exam military service only is made.

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ance.

If the finding of the Local Board is not in accord with Findings of lo the recommendation of the Medical Advisory Board, the boards at vari Local Board shall make a special report to the District Board of its reason for rejecting the recommendation of the Medical Advisory Board.

The Local Board shall, on the day of its decision as to the physical qualification of any registrant, mail to such registrant a notice (Form 1011) of the result of such de- Notice of de cision and shall enter the date of such mailing in column 21 of the Classification List (Form 1000).

Section 125. Appeal from finding of Local Board as to physical qualifications.

Within five days after the date of the notice prescribed in section 124 any registrant may make a claim of appeal

cision; see sec. 283.

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to the District Board from the finding of the Local Board,Notice; see sec. as to his physical qualification for military service. Claim of appeal shall be made by entering the claim in the place provided for that purpose on all three copies of the physical examination report (Form 1010). No registrant Physical exam may make a claim of appeal unless, upon being notified sec. 282. of the examining physician's finding as to his physical qualification, as prescribed in section 122, and before final decision by the Local Board, such registrant shall have Registrant entered an application to be sent before a Medical Advi- must have ap sory Board, as provided in section 122. The Government plied for exam Appeal Agent may make a claim of appeal on behalf of the sory board, ses United States at any time, but ordinarily he shall not do Appeal by ap so when the decision of the Local Board follows the rec- peal agent. ommendation of the Medical Advisory Board. He shall always do so when such is not the case.

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Immediately upon filing of an appeal from the decision Record of ex of the Local Board as to physical qualification, the Local district board. Board shall transmit to the District Board all three copies of the record of physical examination (Form 1010) in the case, together with any additional evidence as to physical qualification which may have been submitted to the Local Board, and shall enter the date of forwarding such record in column 22 of the Classification List and in the place provided on the Cover Sheet.

Section 126. Action by District Board upon appeal as to physical qualification.

ord; see sec. 125

In considering a case appealed on the ground of Decision on recphysical qualification, the District Board shall neither conduct any new physical examination nor shall it receive or consider any evidence which was not considered by the Local Board, but shall, upon consideration of the record sent to it as prescribed in section 125, either affirm, modify, or reverse the decision of the Local Board and promptly enter its finding on all three copies of Form

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