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§12. Medals and Decorations.
143. All meals and decorations emanate from the Sovereign and no decoration or The medal may be issued without His Majesty's approval having been first obtained. King's Regulations respecting foreign Orders and Medals are inserted in appendix 5.
§ 13. Salutes.
144. The salutes to which Colonial Officials are entitled are determined by the Table in appendix 6.
145. Officers acting temporarily in any civil office are entitled during their temporary tenure to all the honours or salutes that may appertain to such office.
146. Governors are authorised to sanction such salutes as may have been customary, also such as they may deem right and proper at religious ceremonies, and further to cause the usual salutes to be fired at the opening and closing of the Houses of Parliament or Assembly; but these salutes are in no cases to exceed nineteen guns. 147. A Colonial Governor absent from his Colony on leave, or otherwise than on a special mission expressly authorised by His Majesty's Government, is not entitled to receive any salute, or to fly any flag, as these privileges are only permitted when he is A Governor SO absent should decline all actually representing the Sovereign. salutes or other official recognitions of a royal character from any foreign ship or troops.
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§14. Nays.
148. The Royal Standard will be flown at Government House on the King's Birthday, and on the days of His Majesty's accession and coronation.
149. The Union Flag, without the badge of the Colony, will be flown at Govern- ment House from sunrise to sunset on other days.
150. The Union Flag, with the approved arms or badge of the Colony, emblazoned in the centre thereof on a white shield surrounded by a green garland (as shown in the drawing in appendix 7), will be used by a Governor, a Lieutenant-Governor, or other officer administering a government, when embarked in a boat or other vessel.
151. The British Blue Ensign with the arms or badge of the Colony emblazoned in the centre of the fly, i.e., in the centre of that part between the union jack and the end of the flag, and the pendant (as shown in the drawing in appendix 8), shall be flown by all armed vessels which belong to or are in the service of the Government of a Colony. Such vessels when not armed shall fly a similar blue ensign, but no pendant.
152. All other vessels registered as belonging to His Majesty's subjects in His Majesty's Colonies or Dependencies will fly the red ensign without any badge unless otherwise authorized by warrant from His Majesty or from the Admiralty. Such warrants have been issued in the case of Canada, the Commonwealth of Australia, and New Zealand. Colonial Merchant Vessels may carry distinguishing flags with the badge of the Colony thereon, in addition to the red ensign, provided that such flags do not infringe Section 73 (2) of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894.
153. Whenever a requisition is received by any officer in command of one of His Majesty's Ships for the embarkation or conveyance of a Governor, High Commissioner, Lieutenant-Governor, or other officer administering a government, the senior naval officer present may direct the flag which such official is entitled to use to be hoisted at the foretop-gallant masthead of the ship in which he is embarked; provided that after consultation with, and on requisition from that official, the senior naval officer considers it for the benefit of the service about to be performed that such flag should be hoisted, and provided that it is only hoisted or carried within the limits of the Government.
154. If the senior officer considers it, in any circumstances, undesirable to hoist the flag, he will inform the Governor, High Commissioner, or other official concerned, of his reasons, and will at once report the same to the Admiralty.
155. In the event of a Governor, High Commissioner, or officer administering the government of a Colony being detached on a foreign mission in his official capacity, special instructions will be issued in each case as to the flag which should be carried
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by the man-of-war in which he may be embarked. In the absence of such instructions the senior naval officer present will exercise his discretion in consultation with the official proceeding on the mission.
$ 15. Visits.
156. Official visits between Naval Officers and Governors, Lieutenant-Governors and Administrators of His Majesty's Colonies and Protectorates abroad, will be exchanged on the following occasions:—
(a) On the arrival of one or more of His Majesty's ships at a port at which the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Administrator or Commissioner of the Colony, Territory, or Dependency is present, between such officer and the senior officer in command of the squadron or ship.
(b) On the first arrival at such a port of any Flag Officer or Commodore since taking up his appointment.
(e) On a Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Administrator, or Commissioner newly appointed assuming office, between him and all Flag Officers and Commodores present.
(d) These visits need not be exchanged more than once during the respective tenure of office of the King's representative and the naval officers mentioned above."
157. In exchanging visits,
(a) A Governor will always receive the first visit from the senior officer in command of the squadron or ship.
(b) A Lieutenant-Governor will pay the first visit to a Flag Officer or Commodore, 1st Class, who is a Commander-in-Chief, but will receive the first visit in all other cases.
(e) An Administrator or Commissioner will pay the first visit to all Flag Officers
or Commodores, but will receive the first visit in all other cases.
158. Return visits must be paid within 24 hours.
(a) A Governor will return visits in person to all Flag Officers and Commodores, (b) A Lieutenant-Governor will do so in person to all Flag Officers and Commodores, not being Commanders-in-Chief.
(c) An Administrator or Commissioner will do so in person to all Captains. (d) A Flag Officer or Commodore will do so in person to all Lieutenant-Governors, Administrators or Commissioners.
(e) In all other cases the return visit will be paid by an Aide-de-Camp or other officer deputed.
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159. Should the Governor or any other officer administering the government find that from indisposition or pressure important business he is unable to return or pay a visit in person he will depute his Aide-de-Camp or some other officer to do so. like manner should a Flag Officer or Commodore from indisposition or pressing occupation be precluded from paying or returning a visit he will depute his Flag- Lieutenant or other officer not below that rank to do so. In each case the officer failing to pay
the required visit in person will report the circumstance, and the reasons which led to the omission, to the Department under which he is acting.
160. Officers acting temporarily in higher civil offices or commands will, in respect to these visits, be upon the same footing as if they were confirmed in such offices or commands.
161. The senior naval officer present will arrange, when necessary, to provide suitable boats to enable Governors, &c., to pay any official visits afloat, and to re-land them, on their notifying their wishes to that effect.
162. For the purpose of Regulations 156 to 161
(a) The term "Governor" includes the Governors-General of Canada and the Commonwealth of Australia, the High Commissioners for South Africa and the Western Pacific, and the High Commissioners of Northern Nigeria and Cyprus.
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(6) The term Lieutenant-Governor means a Lieutenant-Governor administering the Government as such. As regards visits, the status of the Commissioner of Weihaiwei is that of a Lieutenant-Governor.
(c) The terms "Administrator" and "Commissioner " signify the Administrator or Commissioner of a Colony, Territory, or Dependency acting in subordination to a Governor or High Commissioner.
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