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 when he is absent from employment for the purpose of training.

Penalty: One hundred pounds.

In any proceedings for any contravention of this section, it shall lie upon the employer to show that any employé, proved to have been dismissed or to have been penalized or prejudiced in his employment, or to have suffered a reduction of wages, was so dismissed, penalized, or prejudiced in his employment or reduced for some reason other than for having rendered or being liable to render the personal service required of him or for attending the camp.

Every person, who in any year without lawful ex­cuse evades or fails to render the personal service required by the Defence Act, shall be guilty of an offence, and shall, in addition to the liability to be classified as "non-efficient," be liable to a penalty not exceeding One Hundred Pounds.

Every person who, being a person liable to training under the Defence Act:

shall be guilty of an offence, and shall, in addition to the liability to be classified as "non-efficient," be liable to a penalty not exceeding Five Pounds.

Any penalty under this section may be recovered summarily on the information or complaint of a prescribed officer. In addition to any penalty imposed, or (where the Court is of opinion that the imposition of a penalty would involve undue hardship), in lieu of must pass at either of such examinations, or the one next following, which, however, must exceed a