ordered to perform community service.

An amendment to the 1965 Defence Act was tabled in the House of Assembly yesterday and will be debated next week.

The amendment, if passed, will give the Governor the authority to order objectors to carry out community service for the same period they would have been wearing army fatigues.

And recruits who are prepared to serve but do not want to carry a weapon will be made to carry out non-combatant duties.

"The Exemption Tribunal, if satisfied upon an application that the ground on which the application was made is established, shall inform the Governor accordingly, and the Governor shall cause the name of the conscientious objector to be entered in a register,'' the bill reads.

"The Governor shall make arrangements for securing that a person registered in the register shall during the period for which he serves, or would have served, by virtue of being called up for military service...be required to perform alternative community service of such a kind as is approved by the Governor and set out in an order made by the Governor and published in the Gazette.'' REGIMENT MIL