"الملف 15/18 المنشورات الدورية لوزارة الخارجية والشؤون السياسية المستلمة من حكومة الهند." [ظ‎‎٢‎٥] (٣٧٠/٤٨)

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, appella
tion, 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 mem
bership 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 be
half of the Head or Government of a Foreign
State or by private Life Saving Societies or Insti
tutions may be accepted and worn without restric
tion.
Subject, however, in the case of members of
His Majesty's Naval, Military or Air Forces, to
any restrictions imposed oy the King's Regu
lations 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 can
not 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
Majesty'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.
B
Begulatlons respecting Foreign Orders and
Medals applicable to Persons NOT in the
Service of the Crown.
Orders.
1. NO subject of His Majesty 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
(h) By restricted permission conveyed
through the Keeper of His Majesty's
Privy Purse.
2. When permission is given by Warrant
under tlu 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 th< 1 terms of the letter from the
Keeper of His Majesty's Privy Purse convey
ing the Royal sanction.
3. Full and unrestricted permission by War
rant under the Royal Sign-Manual will only be
given in the ease of Decorations earned by
services in the salaried employment of the
foreign Government concerned, by honorary
consular services of not less than three years
duration, or by distinguished services in the
saving of life.
Such services must have been rendered, at
least in part, within the period of five years
immediately preceding the notification pres
cribed by Rule 5 below.
4. Restricted permission will ordinarily be
given in all other cases, except where consi
derations of general policy or public interest
must be held to preclude permission ; provid
ed, however, that such permission shall not be
given in the ease of Decorations conferred or
offered more than five years before the date
of application for permission, and, further,
that the bestowal of the Decoration has been
made the subject of an official communication
through one of the channels prescribed in
Rule 5.
5. Both in the case of full and of restricted
permission the matter will be submitted to
the King by His Majesty's Principal Secre
tary 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 Representa
tive accredited to the Head of the Foreign
State, or through the Diplomatic Representa
tive of the latter at the Court of St. James.
6. 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 per
mission 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 pre
pared 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.
7. The Warrant signifying His Majesty's
permission may, at the request and at the ex
pense of the person who has obtained it, be
registered in the Ccllejr 1 of Avrns. Every
such Warrant as aforesaid shall contain a
clause providing that His Majesty's licence
and permission does not authorise the assump
tion of any style, appellation, rank, pre
cedence, or privilege appertaining to a Knight
Bachelor of His Majesty's Realms.
Medals.
8. 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 to wear is given
by Letter and not by Royal Warrant. No