3. Permission will not be given:
(a) when considerations of general policy or public interest must be held to preclude it;
(b) in respect of Orders relating to services wholly rendered more than five years before the question of eligibility for permission is raised;
(c) unless authoritative evidence of the award is forthcoming, prefer- ably in the form of a notification through one of the channels prescribed in Rule 4.
4. Applications for The Queen's permission will be submitted to Her Majesty by Her Principal Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, who however shall be under no obligation to consider them unless, before the bestowal of the Order, the Government of the foreign or Common- wealth country concerned has ascertained, through the British Diplomatic Representative there or through its Diplomatic Representative at Her Majesty's Court, that having regard to these Regulations the award would not give rise to any objection.
5. Permission will not be granted for the wearing of the insignia of Orders and decorations conferred otherwise than by the Heads of Governments of States recognised by Her Majesty as such.
Medals*
6. Medals, with the exceptions specified below, and State decorations not indicating membership of an Order of Chivalry, are subject to the Regulations in the same manner as Orders. No permission is needed for the acceptance of a foreign or Commonwealth medal if it is not designed to be worn.
7. Medals for saving or attempting to save life, whether awarded by the Head or Government of a foreign or Commonwealth State or by private Life-Saving Societies or Institutions, may be accepted and worn without permission; but such medals, if given by private organisations, should be worn on the right breast and not on the left with State awards, and not more than two awards in all should be worn in relation to one act of bravery.
Applications for Her Majesty's permission to wear other medals conferred by Private Societies or Institutions cannot be entertained.
8. Applications for permission to wear foreign or Commonwealth medals gained in warlike operations will not be entertained if the grant of such permission would be at variance with considerations of general policy or public interest.
General
9. 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
* These Regulations do not relate to awards of campaign or commemorative war
medals.
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