Twelfthly: Forfeiture and restoration.—It shall be competent for Our Governor-General, Governor or Officer Admin- istering the Government of any Colony or Territory under Our Protection or Administration, in relation to the Police 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 Ourselves. Our Heirs and Successors, full power of annulling, altering, abrogating, augmenting, interpreting or dispensing with these rules and ordinances, or any part thereof, by a notification under Our Sign Manual.
All previous Warrants in this behalf are hereby revoked.
GIVEN at Our Court at St. James's this Twenty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-six, in the fifth year of Our Reign,
By Her Majesty's Command,
COLONIAL SECRETARIAT.
THE COLONIAL POLICE LONG SERVICE MEDAL.
HONG KONG.
In exercise of the powers conferred on him by the Royal Warrant dated 21st March, 1956, published as Notification No. A. 96 in Gazette Supplement No. 2 of 29th November, 1957. the Governor with the approval of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, has made the following regulations governing the award of the Colonial Police Long Service Medal to members of the Police Force of the Colony in replacement of the regula- tions published as Gazette Notification No. 37 of roth January, 1936, which are hereby revoked.
19th November, 1957. (Secretariat PR 35/4518/55)
D.
Colonial Secretary.
THE COLONIAL POLICE LONG SERVICE MEDAL. HONG KONG.
ALAN LENNOX-BOYD.
Service Required.
The Colonial Police Long Service Medal will be granted as a reward for long service and good conduct to all police officers in the Hong Kong Police Force, below the rank of Assistant Superintendent who on or after the 21st of March, 1956, shall have completed eighteen years' continuous service as hereinafter 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.
Continuity of Service.
Qualifying service in the Civil Police Forces 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