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of the Territory and belonging to the Station in which the Territory is included, and shall also include a Resident Naval Officer at a naval base, who in the absence of the Commander-in-Chief of the Station in which the Territory is included is normally the senior officer at that base and is thus in command of any ships present;
(ii) the term "land forces in the Territory" shall include any permanent military force maintained by the Government in any territory where there are no regular troops, but shall not include voluntary or auxiliary forces, and the term "officer in command of the land forces in the Territory" shall include the military officer holding the command in the Territory in the absence of the superior commanding officer; and
(iii) the term "officer in command of the air forces in the Territory shall include the Air Force officer holding the command in the Territory in the absence of the superior commanding officer.
Any officer falling within the above definitions shall retain the precedence to which he is entitled under the preceding regulation, notwithstanding the presence in the Territory of the superior officer of the whole naval, military, or air force command. No naval, military, or air force officers other than those included in the general table of precedence, as above defined, have any place at all in that table, and the places accorded therein to the senior officers of the three services have no connexion, except as between those officers, with the regulations governing the precedence of officers of Her Majesty's forces.
116. When a naval officer is a member of a Court of Inquiry into the circumstances attending the loss of a merchant ship but does not preside over the Court he should sit at the right hand of, and so next in seniority to, the President.
117. Members of the Royal Family take precedence in a territory next after the Governor.
Except as provided in the following paragraph, British subjects who enjoy in the United Kingdom precedence by right of birth or by dignity conferred by the Crown do not lose such precedence while either temporarily or perma- nently residing in any territory.
In the absence of special instructions from the Queen and subject to any specific provision in the authorised local tables, the precedence within a territory of all persons holding office or discharging official duties, whether naval, military, air force, or civil, within that territory is determined solely by official rank, and the wives of such persons, even though they enjoy precedence in the United Kingdom by right of birth, take their place according to the precedence of their husbands.
Persons entitled to official precedence in the United Kingdom, in foreign countries, or in any particular part of Her Majesty's dominions, are not entitled as of right to the same precedence elsewhere. In the absence of any special instructions from the Queen, the precedence of such persons will be deter- mined by the Governor.
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