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GOOD CONDUCT MEDALS.
being restored before he is pensioned, not more than
the lowest scale of Gratuity, viz. 54. will be awarded.
11. If a man is invalided after having been
awarded the Medal, and before completion of the
fall time for Pension, he will be awarded the
amount of Gratuity in accordance with Clause 7 of
this Article.
12. If a man should die after the award of his
medal, any Gratuity to which he may be entitled
will be paid to his widow, or next of kin if dependent
upon him.
13. Anv man voluntarily quitting the Service be-
fore being entitled to a pension will not be entitled
to a gratuity.
14. In cases where men who have completed time
for Pension re-engage for a further period of service,
and are not at the time of eft-engaging entitled to
the maximum Gratuity, such further service may
count towards it, provided they in all respects
comply with the Regulations.
15. Men who have been paid the Gratuity for which
they are eligible at the date of completing time for
Pension, and who subsequently become eligible by
further service for a.higher rate of Gratuity, may be
paid the difference between the amount they have
already received and such higher rate. But in no
case will more than two payments on account of
Good Conduct Gratuity be made to the same man.
16. In the case of a man who has been paid Gratu-
ity on completing time for Pension, and whose
Pension is not secured to him under Art. 1946,
Clause 2, the Gratuity paid will be recovered from
his Naval Pension if he misconducts himself during
subsequent service and becomes ineligible for the
award on final discharge.
17 In all those cases if the Captain should see fit
to withhold the required recommendation for Medal
or Gratuity he will fully record in the Conduct Boob
his reason for so doing and draw a line across the
" R M.G." column of the man's Service Certificate
or the corresponding column of his Conduct Sheet
( formS.239rt).
18. No service can reckon for Medal or Gratuity
which does not reckon for Pension but Officers'
Stewards and Cooks who have nor, performed the
necessary service in seagoing ships to qualifv for
Pension under Article 1934, Clause 4, will not be
debarred from an award of the Medal if otherwise
eligible.
19. Imprisonment by the Civil Power shall not
prejudice a man's claim to a Medal or Gratuity un-
less it shall have been so directed by the Admiralty
if the man was serving at home at the time, or by
the Commander-in-Chief if abroad.
20 A brealfin service not due to desertion, dis-
missal sentence of imprisonment or detention or
other misconduct on the Man's part will not be con-
sidered as breaking the continuity of his "Very Cood
character, or of recommendations for Medal or Gra-
tuity, provided that he rejoin within five years, or, if
invalided, so soon as the state of his health permits.
21. Names of Men recommended for Medals and
Gratuities are to be transmitted to the Admiralty so
soon as the Men become eligible for them, on Form
S. 218, accompanied by their Service Certificate, by
the Commanders-in Chief and Senior Officers at
Home and Abroad, and by the District Captains of
Coast Guard, and when the approval of the Admir-
alty has been received, the Medals are if possible to
be presented before the Ship's company by the
Captain of the Ship.
22. The foregoing regulations for the award of
Good Conduct Medals and Gratuities apply to the
Coast Guard Afloat and on Shore.
GOOD CONDUCT AND OTHER MEDALS
AND GRATUITIES.
MARINES.
1192. Any Marine below the rank of Warrant Officer
who enlisted after 3lst December 1884, may be recom-
mended for the award of a Good Conduct Medal under
the following rules: —
Note.— This applies to Marines who were under the
age of 18 on 3lst December 1884.
2. To entitle a Marine to a Medal:—
a. He must have served for 15 years with contin-
uous "Very Good" character, with previous
character not inferior to " Good " in service
reckoning for Pension.
b. He must have been recommended for the
award by the Captain of his Ship, or by the
Commandant of his Division on his Service
Certificate for the three consecutive years
immediately preceding his application.
c. He must be recommended by the Captain of
the Ship or Commandant of his Division un-
der whom he is serving when he becomes
• eligible.
3. After a Marine eligible for the Good Conduct
Medal under Clause 1 has been awarded 12 years con-
tinuous "Very Good"character as under these Regula-
tions will count towards Medal, and if his character
should continue to be "Very Good," the Captain of his
Ship or the Commandant of his Division, if he consid-
ers him deserving thereof, is to enter on his Company
Conduct Sheet or Certificate the recommendations
provided for under Arts. 828 and 830.
4. Desertion or reduction to the Second Class for
Conduct will render aMarine absolutely ineligible for
the awand of a Good Contract Medal, except for one
reduction within the first tive years of a Marine's time,
provided that by his conduct he earns his restoration
to the First Class within 8 months, and that his
character for the year in which the reduction
occurred was not assessed below "Good." See
Clause 2 (a).