3. Exemplary character.
For the purpose of these Regulations service shall only be reckoned as qualifying service if it is certified that the character and conduct of the person recommended for the grant of the Medal or Clasp has been exemplary.
Exemplary character means a record clear of any serious offence or persistent minor offences. Provided that the Com- missioner of Prisons, notwithstanding recorded offences, may recommend an award where general conduct and character merit such recommendation and always provided that no serious offence has been committed during the last five years of the qualifying period of service.
4. Recommending authority.
Recommendations for the award of the Medal or Clasp shall be admitted by the Commissioner of Prisons to the Governor or Officer Administering the Government. The medal will be awarded on the authority of the Governor or Officer Adminis- tering the Government and a notification of such award shall be published in the Government Gaselle.
5. Forfeiture and restoration.
(4) A recipient of the Medal or Clasp who is convicted of a criminal offence or is dismissed or removed from the Prison Service for misconduct shall forfeit the Medal and Clasp unless the Governor or Officer Administering the Government shall otherwise direct.
(b) A Medal or Clasp so forfeited may be restored to the recipient by the Governor or Officer Administering the Govern- ment at his discretion.
(c) A notice of forfeiture or restoration shall in every case be published in the Government Gazelle.
6. Loss and application for replacement.
In the event of loss application may be made for replacement of a medal. Such application, stating the circumstances in which the loss occurred, will be forwarded to the Governor or Officer Administering the Government through the Commissioner of Prisons. If the explanation of the loss is considered satisfactory, the medal may be replaced on payment or otherwise.
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ORDINANCE.
(Chapter 221).
CRIMINAL APPEAL (AMENDMENT) RULES, 1957.
In exercise of the powers conferred by section g of the Criminal Procedure Ordinance, I, the Chief Justice, hereby make the following rules--
1. These rules may be cited as the Criminal Appeal Citation. (Amendment) Rules, 1957.
2. Rule 5 of the Criminal Appeal Rules (hereinafter referred Rescission to as the principal rules) is rescinded and replaced by the replace- following-
*Shorthand writers.
5. (0) The Chief Justice may appoint short- hand writers for the purposes of the Ordinance for such period and on such conditions as he shall deem necessary.
(2) A shorthand writer shall sign the shorthand note taken by him of any trial or proceedings and shall certify the same to be a complete and correct shorthand note thereof, and shall retain the same unless and until he is directed by the Registrar to forward such short- hand note to him.
(3) The shorthand writer, on being so directed by the Registrar, shall furnish to the Registrar for the use of the Full Court a transcript of the whole or of any part of the shorthand note taken by him of any trial or proceedings in reference to which an appellant has appealed under the Ordinance.
(4) The Registrar shall furnish to a party interest- ed in a trial or other proceedings in relation to which a person may appeal under the Ordinance a transcript of
ment of
rule 5. (Vol. XI, P. 14).