Executive Order 11586—Amending the Selective Service Regulations

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Military Selective Service Act of 1967 (62 Stat. 604, as amended), I hereby prescribe the following amendments of the Selective Service Regulations prescribed by Executive Orders Number 10001 of September 17, 1948; Number 10008 of October 18, 1948; Number 10202 of January 12, 1951; Number 10292 of September 25, 1951; Number 10420 of December 17, 1952; Number 10659 of February 15, 1956; Number 10714 of June 13, 1957; Number 10837 of September 14, 1959; Number 10984 of January 5, 1962; Number 11350 of May 3, 1967; Number 11360 of June 30, 1967; and constituting portions of Chapter XVI of Title 32 of the Code of Federal Regulations: SEC. 1. Part 1632, Delivery and Induction, is amended as follows: (a) Section 1632.1 Order to Report for Induction— is amended as follows: The text of Section 1632.1 is redesignated as paragraph (a) thereof and new paragraphs (b) and (c) are added to Section 1632.1 to read as follows: "(b) Any registrant who has been issued an Order to Report for Induction (SSS Form 252) and who is distant from his local board of origin, which issued the Order, must report at the time and place specified therein, unless he voluntarily submits to processing for induction at any Armed Forces Examining and Entrance Station and is actually inducted into the Armed Forces or found to be not qualified for induction into the Armed Forces on or before the third day prior to the day that he was required to report in accordance with the Order to Report for Induction (SSS Form 252). "(c) If the registrant is inducted or if the registrant is found not qualified for induction pursuant to paragraph (b) hereof, the Armed Forces Examining and Entrance Station shall inform the local board which issued the Order to Report for Induction (SSS Form 252) of such event, and in either such event the registrant shall not be required to comply with the said Order." (b) Section 1632.5 Preparing Records for a Group Ordered to Report for Induction—is amended by striking the letter designation "(a)" and all of paragraph (b). (c) Section 1632.9 Certain Registrants May Request Transfer for Induction—is rescinded. (d) Section 1632.10 Transfer for Induction Directed by Director of Selective Service—paragraph (c) is amended by substituting the words "such other action as prescribed by the Director" for the words "the other actions provided for in paragraphs (h) and (i) of Section 1632.9". (e) Section 1632.14 Duty of Registrant to Report for and Submit to Induction—is amended as follows: (1) Paragraph (a) is amended as follows: in the first sentence thereof the words "or an Order for Transferred Man to Report for Induction (SSS Form 253)" are deleted and in the last sentence thereof the words "and to each local board whose area he enters or in whose area he remains" are deleted. (2) Paragraph (b) is amended by substituting the words "Upon reporting for his scheduled induction as ordered by his local board" for the words "Upon reporting for induction". (f) Section 1632.15 Forwarding Registrants for Induction—paragraph (e) is amended by inserting after the word "group" in the first sentence the following words: "who are reporting for scheduled inductions as ordered by their local boards". (g) Section 1632.20 Records Returned to Local Board—paragraph (b) is amended by substituting the word "section" for the words "section 1632.9 and" in the first sentence thereof. SEC. 2. Section 1642.15 Continuous Duty of Certain Registrants to Report for Induction—is amended by deleting the words "or pursuant to an Order for Transferred Man to Report for Induction (SSS Form 253)" and the words ", and to each local board, whose area he enters or in whose area he remains". RICHARD NIXON The White House March 10, 1971