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        SECTION 1. Any person having conscientious scruples against all forms of work for purposes of war, shall be deemed to have been assigned to work of national importance within the meaning of the Selective Service Act of 1940, and of all acts amendatory thereto, if he is voluntarily engaging in a volunteer conscientious-objector project as hereinafter provided for.

        SECTION 2. For the purposes of the preceding section, a volunteer conscientious-objector project shall consist work national and non-war importance, owned and governed exclusively by the association of all those employed on the project, not requiring any form of payment for membership or for the right to work, and employing exclusively persons (whether or not registrants under the Selective Service Act of 1940 and acts amendatory thereto) having conscientious scruples against all forms of work for purposes of war, all of whom are volunteers for the said work and are voluntarily accepted by the association for the said work.

        SECTION 3. This Act shall apply to projects operated by associations organized as provided for in the preceding Section, providing that the association registers at an office of the United States Employment Service within fifteen miles of where any of its work is, or is proposed to be, done, giving information as to the nature of projects in operation, address of association headquarters, and secretary and treasurer of the association. Such registration shall be granted as a matter of course to any volunteer conscientious-objector project in operation on or before October first, nineteen hundred and forty-three; for other projects and associations, upon proof to said office of the United States Employment Service of compliance with the provisions of this Act. If work on a project is not done within fifteen miles of any office of the United Sates Employment Service, the association may register at the nearest office of the United States Employment Service to its headquarters.

        SECTION 4. In case a conscientious objector, within the classification defined in Section 1 of this Act, has been assigned to work in lie of induction under the Selective Service Act of 1940 or acts amendatory thereto, he may, if voluntarily accepted by a volunteer conscientious-objector project, transfer to said project from the work to which he has been assigned, even if he has not yet reported for the said work.

        SECTION 5. Any prisoner, or anyone against whom criminal proceedings are pending, who has conscientious scruples against all forms of work for purpose of war, and the charges against whom arise out of violations or alleged violations of the Selective Service Act of 1940 or acts amendatory thereto, shall be permitted to volunteer for a volunteer conscientious-objector project formed and conducted in Accordance with the provisions of this Act; and, if accepted for work on such project, shall be released, paroled, put on probation, granted continuance of criminal proceedings or suspended sentence, as the status of the case may require, to enable him to work on the said project.


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