Thirdly: Name of recipient.-The name and rank of the recipient and the Territory in which he completed bis 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 green, with two borders, dark blue and each three eighths of an inch in width, two silver stripes one sixteenth of an inch in width being superimposed on the green central part, dividing it into three stripes of equal width.
Fifthly: Eligibility and Service required.—The Medal shall be awarded only to such members of any rank of the Special Constabulary Forces in Our Colonies and Territories under Our Protection or Administration, who satisfy the following conditions, namely:
(1) shall have served as a Special Constable without pay for not less than nine years in such Force or for periods amounting in the aggregate to not less than nine years in one or more such Forces, and shall be recommended by the Head of the Police Force as willing and competent to discharge the duties of a Special Constable and as having performed without pay such duty as a Special Constable as has been required from him by the Head of the Police Force during that period or those periods; or (2) shall have served as a Special Constable in receipt of remuneration for his service by way of salary or allowance, or training or retaining fees, for a period of not less than fifteen years in such Force or for periods amounting in the aggregate to not less than fifteen years in one or more such Forces, and shall be recommended by the Head of the Police Force as willing and competent to discharge the duties of a Special Constable and as having performed such duty as a Special Constable as has been required from him by the Head of the Police Force during that period or those periods:
Provided-
(a) that such service shall not be reckoned as qualifying service for the Colonial Police Long Service Medal (b) that no period shall be reckoned as qualifying service during which a member has been paid as a member of the permanent staff of such Force.
Sixthly: Clasps.-A Clasp to the Medal, to be attached to the ribbon when the Medal itself is worn, may be awarded of completion of each ten years of qualifying service as aforesaid
after completion of qualifying service for the Medal. A small silver rose emblem denoting the award of sach Clasp shall be worn on the ribbon when the ribbon only is worn. Seventhly: Certificate of efficiency-No person shall be recom- mended for the Medal or Clasp unless, having completed the qualifying period of service, it is certified that he was willing and competent to discharge the duties of a Special Constable, and performed such duty as a Special Constable as has been required from him. It is also a requirement that the candidate shall have been put forward by the Officer in charge of the Special Constabulary 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 wom the Colonial Special Constabulary Medal shall be placed immedi- ately after the South African Medal for War Services.
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 be approximately half the size of the Colonial Special Constabulary Medal, and a sealed pattern of the miniature Medal shall be kept in the Central Chancery of Our Orders of Knighthood.
Tenthly: 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 Special Constabulary in any Colony or Territory under Our Protection or Administration that the grant of any unofficial or local long service medals for wear in such Special Constabulary shall be discontinued, and that any unofficial or local long service medal already granted shall be worn by a recipient of our Colonial Special Con- stabulary Medal.
Twelfthly! Forfeiture and restoration.—It shall be competent for Our Governor-General, Governor or Officer Administering the Government of any Colony or Territory under Our Protection or Administration, in relation to the Special Constabulary 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,
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