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Show Selective Service Program Explains Right of Appeal From Classification Editor's Note: This is the last of a series of eight articles prepared pre-pared by Capt. William Nash of the Air Force ROTC detachment detach-ment at the College of Southern South-ern Utah to acquaint the readers with various phases of the Selective Se-lective Service Act. The Selective Service Act concerns the lives of all registrants and the economic and social welfare of each and every community. This article pertains to personal per-sonal appearances. Part 1(52-1 of the Selective Service Ser-vice Regulations provides that every registrant, as a matter of procedural right, is entitled to one personal appearance before his local board after ach classification, classi-fication, (except a classification which is itself determined upon an appearance of this part), if he files a WRITTEN request therefore within 10 days after the local board has mailed a Notice of Classification (SSS Form No. 110) to him. SUCH 10-DAY 10-DAY PERIOD MAY NOT BE EX-. EX-. TENDED. After the registrant has made his written request for an appearand ap-pearand before the local board, he will be notified in writing by the board clerk the date he is to appear before the board. The date set for a personal appearance appear-ance may be several days after his written request has been made or it may be two or three weeks later; depending on the frequency of the local board meetings. A registrant cannot be inducted induct-ed during the period afforded him to appear in person before a member or members of the local lo-cal board, and if the registrant requests a personal appearance he shall not be inducted until 10 days after the Notice of Classification Classi-fication (SSS Form No. 110) is mailed to him by the local board (after the personal appearance), as provided in paragraph (d) of section 162-1.2 of the Selective Service Regulations. No order to report for Induction shall be Is- sued during the period afforded the registrant to ask for a per-sonal per-sonal appearance and to take an appeal. I Frequently, after classification by the local board and within 10 days after the mailing of the Notice No-tice of Classification (SSS Form i No. 110), registrants request a j personal appearance and also appeal to the appeal board. In such case, the fact that an appeal ap-peal has also been taken does not deprive the registrant of his procedural right of personal appearance. ap-pearance. The local board must 'give the registrant an opportunity opportun-ity to appear. If the local board .detet mines not to reopen the registrant's re-gistrant's classification after the personal appearance, the registrant's regis-trant's file must be forwarded to the appeal board without further action on the part of the registrant regis-trant since he has already appealed ap-pealed from that classification. There can he only one official personal appearance after each classification or reclassification. Tlie registrant has the right U appear only before the local Inarci which has classified him His case cannot be transferred to another board for the purpose ol accomplishing the personal appearance. ap-pearance. NO PERSON other than the registrant re-gistrant shall have the right tr appear in person before the local board, but the local board maj in its discretion permit any person per-son to appear before it with or on behalf of a registrant, but no registrant may be represented Defoie the local board by anyone any-one acting as attorney or legal counsel. The evidence presented at the personal appearance should include in-clude among other things, the registrant's occupation, marital staius, dependency, name of present pre-sent employer, change of address, and other pertinent information necessary to make the proper determination de-termination of his classification. Under the Selective Service Regulations, Re-gulations, it is the responsibility of the registrant to furnish for the purpose of his record before the local board and appeal board in writing of the oral information presented at the personal appearance. appear-ance. The summary should be as oricf as possible under the circumstances cir-cumstances in the case. |