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Secondly: Description.-The award shall be in silver, in the form of a circular Medal, bearing on the obverse the Crowned Effigy of the Sovereign, and on the reverse an emblematic design, with the words "For Long Service and Good Conduct" and the circumscription Colonial Fire Brigades",

Thirdly: Name of recipient.-The name and rank of the recipient and the Territory in which he completed his qualifying service shall be inscribed on the rim of the Medal.

Fourthly: Ribbon.-The Medal shall be worn on the left side attached by means of a suspending bar to a ribbon one inch and three-eighths in width, the central part (one half of an inch in width) green, on which is superimposed centrally a silver stripe one-sixteenth of an inch wide, with two borders dark blue each three-eighths of an inch in width, and two silver stripes, each one-sixteenth of an inch wide, separating the borders from the central part,

Fifthly: Eligibility and Service required.-The Medal shall be awarded only to subordinate officers and men of Fire Brigades, who have completed not less than eighteen years' whale-time and continuous service in properly organized Fire Brigades in any Colony or Territory under Our Protection or Administration, or an aggregate of eighteen years' whole-time and continuous service in properly organized Fire Brigades in one or more Colonies or Territories under Our Protection or Administration, as defined in the Regulations hereinafter mentioned.

Sixthly: Clasps.-A Clasp to the Medal to be attached to the ribbon when the Medal itself is worn, may be awarded on the completion of a total of twenty-five years' qualify- ing service as aforesaid, and a further Clasp on the com- pletion of a total of thirty years' qualifying service as aforesaid. A small silver rose emblem denoting the award of each Clasp shall be worn on the ribbon when the ribbon only is worn.

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Seventhly Certificate of Efficiency.-No person shall be recommended for the Medal or Clasp unless, having com- pleted the qualifying period of service, it is certified that

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his character and conduct have been exemplary, as defined in the Regulations hereinafter mentioned. It is also a requirement that the candidate shall be put forward by the Officer in charge of the Fire Service in the Colony or Territory under Our Protection or Administration in which the period of service requisite to qualify for the Medal has been completed.

Eighthly: Order of wear In the official list showing the order in which Orders, Decorations and Medals should be worn the Colonial Fire Brigades Long Service Medal shall be placed immediately after the Colonial Police Long Service Medal,

Ninthly: Miniatures.-

-Reproductions of the Medal, known as miniature Medals, which may be worn on certain occasions by those to whom the Medal is awarded, shall he approximately half the size of the Colonial Fire Brigades Long Service Medal, and a sealed pattern of the miniature Medal shall be kept in the Central Chancery of Our Orders of Knighthood.

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Delegated powers.-Delegated powers to make awards under the terms of this Our Warrant shall be vested in Our Governor-General, Governor or Officer Administering the Government of the Colony or Territory in which the period of service requisite to qualify for the Medal has been completed.

Eleventhly: other awards. It shall be a condition of the award of the Medal in the Fire Service in any Colony or Territory under Our Protection or Administration that the Imperial Service Medal shall cease to be awarded in such Service.

It shall also be a condition of the award of the Medal in the Fire Service in any Colony or Territory under Our Protection or Administration that the grant of any un- official or local long service or good conduct medal for wear in such Service shall be discontinued, and that any unofficial or local long service medal already granted shall not be worn by a recipient of Our Colonial Fire Brigades Long Service Medal,