[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 32, Volume 6]
[Revised as of July 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 32CFR1624.6]

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                        TITLE 32-NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
                  CHAPTER XVI--SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM
 
PART 1624_INDUCTIONS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 1624.6  Postponement of induction.

    (a) [Reserved]

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    (b) In the case of the death of a member of the registrant's 
immediate family, extreme emergency involving a member of the 
registrant's immediate family, serious illness or injury of the 
registrant, or other emergency beyond the registrant's control, the 
Director, after the Order to Report for Induction has been issued, may 
postpone for a specific time the date when such registrant shall be 
required to report. The period of postponement shall not exceed 60 days 
from the date of the induction order. When necessary, the Director may 
grant one further postponement, but the total postponement shall not 
exceed 90 days from the reporting date on the induction order.
    (c)(1) Any registrant who is satisfactorily pursuing a full-time 
course of instruction at a high school or similar institution of 
learning and is issued an order to report for induction shall, upon 
presentation of appropriate facts in the manner prescribed by the 
Director of Selective Service, have his induction postponed:
    (i) Until the time of his graduation therefrom; or
    (ii) Until he attains the twentieth anniversary of his birth; or
    (iii) Until the end of his last academic year, even if he has 
attained the twentieth anniversary of his birth; or
    (iv) Until he ceases satisfactorily to pursue such course of 
instruction, whichever is the earliest.
    (2) Any registrant who, while satisfactorily pursuing a full-time 
course of instruction at a college, university, or similar institution 
of learning, is ordered to report for induction shall, upon the 
presentation of appropriate facts in the manner prescribed by the 
Director of Selective Service, have his induction postponed:
    (i) Until the end of the semester or term, or in the case of his 
last academic year, the end of the academic year; or
    (ii) Until he ceases to satisfactorily pursue such course of 
instruction, whichever is the earlier.
    (3) A postponement authorized by this subsection may be terminated 
by the Director of Selective Service for cause upon no less than 10 days 
notice to the registrant.
    (d) The Director of Selective Service may authorize a delay of 
induction for any registrant whose date of induction conflicts with a 
religious holiday historically observed by a recognized church, 
religious sect or religious organization of which he is a member. Any 
registrant so delayed shall report for induction on the next business 
day following the religious holiday.
    (e) [Reserved]
    (f) The Director of Selective Service may authorize a postponement 
of induction to a registrant when:
    (1) The registrant qualifies and is scheduled for a State or 
National examination in a profession or occupation which requires 
certification before being authorized to engage in the practice of that 
profession or occupation; or
    (2) The registrant has been accepted in the next succeeding class as 
a cadet at the U.S. Military Academy, or the U.S. Air Force Academy, or 
the U.S. Coast Guard Academy; or as a midshipman at the U.S. Naval 
Academy, or the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy; or
    (3) The registrant is a ROTC applicant who has been designated to 
participate in the next succeeding ROTC field training program prior to 
enrollment in the ROTC; or
    (4) The registrant has been accepted as a ROTC scholarship student 
in the next succeeding ROTC program at a college or university.
    (g) The Director of Selective Service shall issue to each registrant 
whose induction is postponed a written notice thereof.
    (h) No registrant whose induction has been postponed shall be 
inducted into the Armed Forces during the period of any such 
postponement. A postponement of induction shall not render invalid the 
Order to Report for Induction which has been issued to the registrant, 
but shall operate only to postpone the reporting date, and the 
registrant shall report on the new date scheduled without having issued 
to him a new Order to Report for Induction.
    (i) Any registrant receiving a postponement under the provisions of 
this section, shall, after the expiration of such postponement, be 
rescheduled to report for induction at the place to which he was 
originally ordered.

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    (j) The initial determination of claims for all postponements is 
made by area office compensated personnel. After a denial of a claim for 
a student postponement, the registrant may request the local board to 
consider the claim. Such registrant shall be afforded an opportunity to 
appeal before the board in accord with the procedures of Sec. Sec. 
1648.4 and 1648.5.

[47 FR 4648, Feb. 1, 1982, as amended at 52 FR 24455, July 1, 1987]