shall be discontinued, and that any unofficial or local long service medal already granted shall not be worn by a recipient of Our Colonial Prison Service Medal.
Twelfthly: Forfeiture and restoration.—It shall be competent
for Our Governor-General, Governor or Officer Adminis- tering the Government of any Colony or Territory under Our Protection, in relation to the Prison Service within his jurisdiction to cancel and annul the conferment of the Medal on any person and also to restore a Medal which has been so forfeited.
Lastly: Annulment, etc.. of rules and ordinances-We reserve to Ourself, Our Heirs and Successors, full power of annulling, altering, abrogating, augmenting, inter- preting or dispensing with these rules and ordinances, or any part thereof, by a notification under Our Sign Manual.
GIVEN at Our Court at St. James's this Twenty-eighth day of October. One thousand nine hundred and fifty-five, in the fourth year of Our Reign.
By Her Majesty's Command,
ALAN LENNOX-Bord.
COLONIAL SECRETARIAT.
Regulations as to the grant, forfeiture, restoration and other matters concerning the Colonial Prison Service Medal issued by the Governor with the approval of the Secretary of State for the Colonies pursuant to the Royal Warrant dated the 28th October, 1955.
1.
Sih February, 1957-
Colonial Secretary.
THE COLONIAL PRISON SERVICE MEDAL HUNG LŨNG.
Service required.
The Colonial Prison Service Medal will be granted as a reward for long service and good conduct to all staff in the Hong Kong Prisons Department, below the rank of Superintendent, who on or after the 28th October, 1955 shall have completed eighteen years' continuous service as bereinafter defined.
A Clasp will also be granted to a recipient of the Medal on his completing twenty-five years' qualifying service, and a further Clasp on completing thirty years' qualifying service. For each Clasp so awarded a small silver rose may be added to the ribbon when worn alone.
2. Continuity of service.
Qualifying service in the Prison Service of other Colonies or Territories under Her Majesty's Protection or Administration may be allowed to reckon towards the required period of qualifying service, if the total period of such service amounts to not less than eighteen years: provided, however, that where service has been rendered in more than one such territory as aforesaid an interval not exceeding twelve months between any two periods of service shall not be regarded as breaking the continuity of such service; provided also that a break in service not exceeding six calendar months in any one such territory shall not be regarded as breaking the continuity of such service.