B. Medals and Decorations
118. All medals and decorations emanate from the Sovereign and no decora- tion or medal may be issued without Her Majesty's approval having been first obtained. The Queen's Regulations respecting Foreign Orders and Medals are inserted in Appendix 3.
C. Salutes
119. The salutes to which Governors are
are entitled are shown in the Table in Appendix 4.
120. An officer acting temporarily in any of the offices specified in Appendix 4 is entitled during his temporary tenure to all the honours or salutes that may appertain to such office.
121. Governors are authorised to sanction such salutes as may have been customary, also such as they may deem right and proper at religious cere- monies, and further to cause the usual salutes to be fired at the opening and closing of the Legislature; but these salutes are in no cases to exceed nineteen guns.
122. A Governor absent from his Territory on leave, or otherwise than on a special mission expressly authorised by Her Majesty's Government, is not entitled to receive any salute, or to fly any flag, as these privileges are only permitted when he is actually representing the Sovereign. A Governor so absent should decline all salutes or other official recognitions of a royal character from any foreign ship or troops.
D. Flags
123. The Union Flag, with the approved Arms or Badge of the Territory emblazoned in the centre thereof on a white ground surrounded by a green garland (as shown in the drawing* in Appendix 5), shall be flown on Govern- ment House from sunrise to sunset when the Governor is in residence, and shall be used by the Governor or other officer administering a government when absent on land from Government House or when embarked in a boat or other vessel.
The Union Flag shall be flown at Government House from sunrise to sunset when the Governor is not in residence.
The approval of the Secretary of State is required for the use, in special local circumstances, of some other flag as the flag of the territory.
124. The British Blue Ensign with the arms or badge of the Territory embla- zoned in the centre of the flag, i.e., in the centre of that part between the Union and the end of the flag, shall be worn at the stern and a blue pendant at the masthead by all armed vessels which belong to or are in the service of the Government of a Territory. (See drawing in Appendix 6.) Such vessels
* Not reproduced.
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