Opinion Number. 551

Subject

DEFENCE FORCES
ENLISTMENT, WITHOUT PARENTAL CONSENT, OF PERSON UNDER TWENTY-ONE

Date
Client
The Secretary, Department of Defence

In my opinion a person under twenty-one years of age is bound by his enlistment, irrespective of whether his father has consented. See Manual of Military Law, 1914, p. 191, and cases there cited.

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