---
kind: "section"
citation: "32 C.F.R. § 1645.7"
title: "32"
number: "1645.7"
heading: "Evaluation of claim."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/32/1645.7"
---

# §1645.7. Evaluation of claim.

- (a) In evaluating a claim for classification in Class 4-D, the board will not consider:
  - (1) The training or abilities of the registrant for duty as a minister; or
  - (2) **The motive or sincerity of the registrant in serving as a minister.**
- (b) The board should be careful to ascertain the actual duties and functions of registrants seeking classification in Class 4-D, such classification being appropriate only for leaders of the various religious groups, not granted to members of such groups generally.
- (c) Preaching and teaching the principles of one's sect, if performed part-time or half-time, occasionally or irregularly, are insufficient to establish eligiblity for Class 4-D. These activities must be regularly performed and must comprise the registrant's regular calling or full-time profession. The mere fact of some secular employment on the part of a registrant requesting classification in Class 4-D does not in itself make him ineligible for that class.
- (d) The board should request the registrant to furnish any additional information that it believes will be of assistance in the consideration of the registrant's claim for classification in Class 4-D.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Military Selective Service Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 451 et seq. ; E.O. 11623.

### Source

Source: 47 FR 4660, Feb. 1, 1982, unless otherwise noted.