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WARRANTS, REGULATIONS, ETC.
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REGULATIONS RESPECTING FOREIGN ORDERS AND
MEDALS APPLICABLE TO PERSONS IN THE SERVICE
OF THE CROWN.
ORDERS.
1. NO person in the Service of the Crown shall
accept or wear the Insignia of any Foreign Order
without having previously obtained His Majesty's
permission to do so, signified either :
(a) By Warrant under the Royal Sign-
Manual, or
(6) By restricted permission conveyed
through the Keeper of His Majesty's Privy
Purse.
2. When permission is given by Warrant under
the Royal Sign-Manual, the Insignia of the
Foreign Order may be worn at all times and
without any restriction.
When restricted permission is given the Insignia
may only be worn on the occasions specified in
the terms of the letter from the Keeper of His
Majesty's Privy Purse conveying the Royal
sanction.
3. Full and unrestricted permission by Warrant
under the Royal Sign-Manual is contemplated
in the following cases : —
For a Decoration conferred —
(a) For distinguished services in the saving of
life;
(6) On an Officer in His Majesty's Naval,
Military or Air Forces lent to a Foreign
Government ; on an Officer in His Majesty's
Naval, Military or Air Forces attached by His
Majesty's Government to a Foreign Navy, Army
or Air Force during hostilities ; or on any British
Official lent to a Foreign Government and not
in receipt of any emoluments from British
public funds during the period of such loan.
4. Restricted permission is particularly con-
templated for Decorations which have been
conferred in recognition of personal attention to
a foreign Sovereign, the Head of a Foreign State,
or a member of a foreign Royal Family, on the
occasion of State or official visits by such
personage .
5. Restricted permission will also be given for
Decorations conferred in the following cases : —
(1) On British Ambassadors or Ministers
abroad when the King pays a State visit to the
country to which they are accredited ;
(Note. — A State visit is defined as one on
which the King is accompanied by a Minister or
High Official in attendance.)
(2) On Members of Deputations of British
Regiments to Foreign Heads of States ;
(3) On Members of Special Missions when the
King is represented at a Foreign Coronation,
Wedding, Funeral, or similar occasion ; or on any
Diplomatic Representative when specially ac-
credited to represent His Majesty on such
occasions (but not on the members of his Staff).
Restricted permission will not be given to —
(a) British Ambassadors or Ministers abroad
when leaving.
(6) British Officers attending Foreign Man-
oeuvres ;
(c) Naval Officers of British Squadrons visiting
Foreign Waters.
6. Both in the case of full and of restricted
permission the matter will be submitted to the
King by His Majesty's Principal Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs, who shall be under
no obligation to consider applications for
permission unless the desire of the Head of a
Foreign State to confer upon a British subject
the Insignia of an Order is notified to him
before the Order is conferred, either through the
British Diplomatic Representative accredited to
the Head of the Foreign State, or through the
Diplomatic Representative of the latter at the
Court of St. James.
In no case can applications be considered in
respect of decorations conferred more than five
years previously, or offered in connexion with
services or events so long prior to the nomination.
7. When His Majesty's Principal Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs shall have taken the
King's pleasure on any such application, and
shall have obtained His Majesty's permission
for the person in whose favour it has been
made to wear the Insignia of a Foreign Order,
he shall signify the same to His Majesty's
Principal Secretary of State for the Home
Department, in order that he may cause a
Warrant, if it be a case for the issue of a
Warrant as defined in Rule 2, to be prepared
for the Royal Sign-Manual.
When such Warrant shall have been signed
by The King, a notification thereof shall be
inserted in the " Gazette."
Persons in whose favour such Warrants are
issued will be required to pay to His Majesty's
Principal Secretary of State for the Home
Department a stamp duty of 10s.
8. The Warrant signifying His Majesty's per-
mission may, at the request and at the expense
of the person who has obtained it, be registered
in the College of Arms. Every such Warrant
as aforesaid shall contain a clause providing
that His Majesty's licence and permission does
not authorise the assumption of any style,
appellation, rank, precedence, or privilege
appertaining to a Knight Bachelor of His
Majesty's Realms.
MEDALS.
9. Medals with the exceptions specified below,
and State decorations not carrying membership
of an Order of Chivalry, are subject to the
Regulations in the same manner as Orders,
but permission is given by Letter and not by
Royal Warrant.
10. Medals for saving or attempting to save
life at sea or on land, whether conferred on
behalf of the Head or Government of a Foreign
State or by private Life Saving Societies or
Institutions, may be accepted and worn without
restriction.
Subject, however, in the case of members of
His Majesty's Naval, Military or Air Forces, to
any restrictions imposed by the King's
Regulations for those Services as to the wearing
of such medals with uniform.
Applications for His Majesty's permission to
wear other Medals conferred by Private Societies
or Institutions and Commemorative Medals cannot
be entertained.
11. The King's unrestricted permission to
accept and wear a Foreign War Medal will only
be given to (1) Members of His Majesty's
Naval, Military or Air Forces if serving with a
Foreign Army, Navy or Air Force with His
Majestv's licence, and (2) Military, Naval or Air
Attaches or Officers and other ranks and ratings
officially attached to Foreign Armies, Navies or
Air Forces during hostilities.
GENERAL.
12. Ladies are subject to the Regulations in
all respects in the same manner as men.
Foreign Office.
March, 1930.