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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 11, 1930.
General.
12. Ladies are subject to the Regulations in all respects in the same manner as men.
Foreign Office,
March, 1930.
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Regulations 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
(b) By restricted permission conveyed through the Keeper of His Majesty's
Privy Purse.
2. When permission is given by Warrant under the 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 the terms of the letter from the Keeper of His Majesty's Privy Purse convey- ing the Royal sanction.
3. Full and unrestricted permission by Warrant under the Royal Sign-Manual will only be given in the case 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 prescribed by Rule 5 below.
4. Restricted permission will ordinarily be given in all other cases, except where considerations of general policy or public interest must be held to preclude permission; provided, however, that such permission shall not be given in the case of Decorations conferred or offered more that 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 com- munication 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 Secretary 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 Representative accredited to the Head of the Foreign State, or through the Diplomatic Representative 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 permission 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 prepared for the Royal Sign-Manual.
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