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11. The wives of persons in the service of the Crown are regarded for the purposes of these Regulations as sharing the disabilities of their husbands concerning the acceptance of foreign or Commonwealth awards.
12. Persons employed in the commissioned or salaried service of the Crown on a temporary basis are subject to these Regulations in the same way as those employed on a permanent and pensionable basis.
13. Members of the various police and constabulary forces maintained in the United Kingdom and Dependent Territories are uniformly regarded as subject to these Regulations, with the exception however of British Transport Commission Police and Dock and Harbour Police Forces established under private Statutes.
14. Persons who have retired from the service of the Crown remain subject to these Regulations in so far as concerns the acceptance of Orders, decorations or medals offered in respect of services rendered before their retirement.
15. The Regulations shall be regarded as applying in the same way as to British subjects, to British-protected persons who are such by virtue of their connection with a Protectorate or Trust Territory administered under the supervision of Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs; they may also be regarded as applying in the same manner to British-protected persons who are such by virtue of their connection with a Protected State administered under the supervision of the said Principal Secretary of State, but Orders, decorations and medals conferred upon such British-protected persons by their Rulers are not regarded as falling within the scope of these Regulations.
Foreign and Commonwealth Office, April 1969.
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REGULATIONS CONCERNING THE ACCEPTANCE AND WEARING BY PERSONS NOT IN THE SERVICE OF THE CROWN OF ORDERS, DECORATIONS AND MEDALS CON- FERRED BY HEADS OF GOVERNMENTS OF FOREIGN STATES AND BY MEMBERS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OVERSEAS OF WHICH THE QUEEN IS NOT THE HEAD OF STATE
(United Kingdom and Dependent Territories)
Orders and Decorations
1. It is The Queen's wish that Her Majesty's subjects should not accept and wear the insignia of any such Order or decoration without her Majesty's permission.
2. Permission, if granted, will allow the insignia to be worn on any occasion, and will be conveyed by letter from Her Majesty's Private Secretary.
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