ZAMBIA NATIONAL SERVICE ACT: SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION(CHAPTER 121 )

(1) The Registrar shall keep a National Service register and shall cause to be entered therein the names and such other particulars, as he may deem necessary, of persons liable under the Act to be called up for the Service.

(2) A person who becomes liable to be called upon to serve in the Service shall within three months of his so becoming liable report in person to the District Executive Secretary of the District in which he resides and furnish his names and such other particulars as may be required for entering the same in the register.

(3) A citizen who wishes to be enlisted voluntarily under the provisions of sub-section (1) of section 5 of the Act shall furnish to the office of the District Executive Secretary of the District in which he resides, his names and such other particulars as may be required for entering the same in the register.

(4) The heads of Secondary Schools shall furnish to the Registrar the names of, and such other particulars as may be required by the Registrar relating to, the students leaving such schools after completing Form V or its equivalent.

(5) The institutions mentioned in the First Schedule hereto are hereby prescribed for the purposes of paragraph (c) of the Second Schedule to the Act.

(6) The Registrar of the University of Zambia and the heads of the institutions mentioned in the First Schedule hereto shall furnish to the Registrar the names of, and such other particulars as may be required by the Registrar relating to, the students attending the University or institutions mentioned in the First Schedule hereto.

(7) The Secretary of the Bursaries Committee of the Government and the Director of Civil Service Training shall furnish to the Registrar the names of, and such other particulars as may be required by the Registrar relating to, the students on the list of students receiving bursaries and studying outside Zambia.

PART III
ENLISTMENT NOTICE

4. Enlistment notice

(1) The Registrar may cause to be served on any person who is liable to be called up for the Service under the Act a written notice (hereinafter called “enlistment notice”).

(2) The enlistment notice shall be in the form prescribed in the Second Schedule hereto and shall be issued not less than one month before the person is called up for the Service.

(3) In a case where transport is not provided by the Service, there shall be paid to a person required to present himself in accordance with an enlistment notice served upon him, such cheapest bus or train fare, from his usual place of residence to the place where he is required to present himself, as he may have actually paid.

5. Postponement certificate

(1) Any person upon whom an enlistment notice has been served or his employer may apply to the Hardship Committee for a postponement certificate or a renewal of postponement certificate, as the case may be, in the form prescribed in the Third Schedule.

(2) In determining an application for the grant or renewal of a postponement certificate regard shall be had to such matters as may be mentioned in the application.

6. Appeal to the Minister

A person aggrieved by the determination of a Hardship Committee may appeal to the Minister in the form prescribed in the Fourth Schedule hereto.

PART IV
NATIONAL SERVICE HARDSHIP COMMITTEES

7. National Service Hardship Committees

(1) A Hardship Committee shall be established in each district of Zambia.

(2) A Hardship Committee shall consist of the District Executive Secretary who shall be the Chairman of the Committee and three other members appointed by the Minister on the recommendation of the Cabinet Minister for the Province.

(3) A Hardship Committee shall meet as often as the Chairman considers necessary for the disposal of applications for postponement certificates or renewals thereof:

Provided that, it shall meet not less than three times in a year.

(4) At any meeting of a Hardship Committee, three members shall constitute a quorum.

(5) If the District Executive Secretary is absent at any meeting of a Hardship Committee, the members present shall elect one of them as Chairman of the meeting.

(6) Each member of a Hardship Committee shall have one vote at any meeting of the Committee and the Chairman shall have a casting vote in addition to a deliberate vote.

(7) The Assistant District Executive Secretary of the District for which a Hardship Committee is established shall be the Secretary of the Hardship Committee, but he shall not be considered a member of the Hardship Committee.

(8) An application for a postponement certificate or for a renewal thereof shall be sent to the office of the District Secretary.

(9) A person who is—

(a) mentally ill; or

(b) blind; or

(d) serving a sentence of imprisonment or is in detention;

shall during the period of any of the disabilities mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (d), be exempt from liability under the Act to be called up for the Service.

PART V
TRAINING IN SERVICE

8. Training

(1) The Service may offer to the Servicemen the following training, that is to say—

(a) military training;

(b) training in agriculture;

(d) political education;

(e) training in culture of Zambia; and

(f) any other training which the Commandant may consider necessary.

(2) Training mentioned in paragraphs (a), (b) and (e) of sub-regulation (1) shall be given to all Servicemen.

9. Leadership course

(1) A leadership course of thirty days shall be organised and run by the Service.

(2) The following classes of persons shall be eligible to join a leadership course:

(a) Cabinet Ministers;

(b) Deputy Ministers;

(d) District Executive Secretaries;

(e) Public officers of and above the rank of Assistant Secretary;

(f) Councillors of a council as defined in the Local Government Act;

(g) Heads of the instutions mentioned in the First Schedule hereto and heads of all secondary schools in Zambia;

(h) such senior members of the staff of any company or association or body of persons, corporate or unincorporate in which the Government holds, directly or indirectly, any shares or any other interest as may be nominated by such company or association, or body of persons in consultation with the Commandant.

(3) The Commandant shall in consultation with the persons mentioned in sub-regulation (2) make arrangements for them to attend the leadership course mentioned in sub-regulation (1) at such places and times as may be found mutually convenient.

10. Period not counted as service

A Serviceman shall be deemed not to be serving with the Service during any period—

(a) when he is serving a sentence of imprisonment; or

(b) when he is absent without leave; or

PART VI
GENERAL PROVISIONS

11. Servicemen’s monthly allowance

There shall be paid to a Serviceman who is not in receipt of any other income for or during the period he spends with the Service a monthly allowance of K6.

12. Record of Servicemen

(1) There shall be maintained in the register a record of every Serviceman as follows:

(a) a photograph with his signature endorsed on it;

(b) name, address and other particulars;

(d) leave of absence;

(e) sick leave;

(f) character; and

(g) distinction obtained.

(2) When a Serviceman completes satisfactorily his period of service in accordance with the provisions of the Act, he shall be issued with a certificate to that effect.

13. Proportion of monthly total earning prescribed under section 5 (4)

The proportion of monthly total earning which a member is required to pay the Service under sub-section (4) of section 5 of the Act is ten per centum of his monthly total earning.

14. Registrar’s duty to notify the Commander of the Home Guard

The Registrar shall provide in writing the Commander of the Home Guard with the names of, and such other particulars as the Commander may require of, all Servicemen who complete their engagement with the Service under the provisions of sub-section (2) or paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of sub-section (3) of section 5 of the Act.

PART VII
BRANCHES, CAMPS, UNITS AND RANKS IN THE SERVICE

15. Branches and units of the Service

(1) The Service shall have the following branches at its Headquarters:

(a) the Administrative Branch;

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