B. Medals and Decorations
118. All medals and decorations emanate from the Sovereign and no decora- tion or medal may be issued without Her Majesty's approval having been first obtained. The Queen's Regulations respecting Foreign Orders and Medals are inserted in Appendix 3.
C. Salutes
119. The salutes to which Governors Table in Appendix 4.
are entitled are shown in the
120. An officer acting temporarily in any of the offices specified in Appendix 4 is entitled during his temporary tenure to all the honours or salutes that may appertain to such office.
121. Governors are authorised to sanction such salutes as may have been customary, also such as they may deem right and proper at religious cere- monies, and further to cause the usual salutes to be fired at the opening and closing of the Legislature; but these salutes are in no cases to exceed nineteen guns.
122. A Governor absent from his Territory on leave, or otherwise than on a special mission expressly authorised by Her Majesty's Government, is not entitled to receive any salute, or to fly any flag, as these privileges are only permitted when he is actually representing the Sovereign. A Governor so absent should decline all salutes or other official recognitions of a royal character from any foreign ship or troops.
D. Flags
123. The Union Flag, with the approved Arms or Badge of the Territory emblazoned in the centre thereof on a white ground surrounded by a green garland (as shown in the drawing* in Appendix 5), shall be flown on Govern- ment House from sunrise to sunset when the Governor is in residence, and shall be used by the Governor or other officer administering a government when absent on land from Government House or when embarked in a boat or other vessel.
The Union Flag shall be flown at Government House from sunrise to sunset when the Governor is not in residence.
The approval of the Secretary of State is required for the use, in special local circumstances, of some other flag as the flag of the territory.
124. The British Blue Ensign with the arms or badge of the Territory embla- zoned in the centre of the flag, i.e., in the centre of that part between the Union and the end of the flag, shall be worn at the stern and a blue pendant at the masthead by all armed vessels which belong to or are in the service of the Government of a Territory. (See drawing in Appendix 6.) Such vessels
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when not armed shall wear at the stern the blue ensign with the badge of the Territory emblazoned as aforesaid but shall not fly a pendant.
125. All other vessels registered as belonging to Her Majesty's subjects in Her Majesty's Territories shall fly the red ensign without any badge unless otherwise authorised by warrant from Her Majesty or from the Admiralty. Dependent Territory merchant vessels may carry distinguishing flags with the badge of the Territory thereon, in addition to the red ensign, provided that such flags do not infringe Section 73 (2) of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894. 126. Whenever a requisition is received by any officer in command of one of Her Majesty's ships for the embarkation or conveyance of a 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.
127. If the senior officer considers it, in any circumstances, undesirable to hoist the flag, he will inform the Governor or other official concerned, of his reasons and will at once report the same to the Admiralty.
128. In the event of a Governor or officer administering the government of a territory 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 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 con- sultation with the officer proceeding on the mission.
E. Visits
129. Official visits between naval, military and air force officers and the Governor or Administrator of a territory shall be exchanged on the following occasions:
(a) on the arrival of one or more of Her Majesty's ships at a port at which the Governor or Administrator is present, between such officer and the senior officer in command of the squadron or ship;
(b) when any Flag Officer or Commodore flying his broad pendant first arrives at such a port since taking up his appointment, between that officer and the Governor or Administrator;
(c) on the first arrival of an officer in command of the land or of the air forces in the Territory at a place at which the Governor or Adminis- trator is present, between the latter and the newly-arrived military or air force officer;
(d) on a Governor or Administrator newly appointed assuming office, between him and all Flag Officers and Commodores flying their broad
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