'Manual of Instructions to Officers of the Political Department of the Government of India' [‎37r] (88/478)

Corrigendum to the Manual of Instructions to Officers of the
Political Department of the Government of India, 1924.
No. 30.
Pages 27—35. For paragraphs 26 and 27 substitute the following :—
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26. Regulations respecting Foreign Orders and Medals applicable to
Persons in the Service of the Crown.
Orders.
1. NO person in the Service of the Crown shall accept or wear the
insignia of any Foreign Order without having previously obtained His
Majesty’s permission to do so, signified either :
{a) By Warrant under the Royal Sign-Manual, or
(b) By restricted permission conveyed through the Keeper of His
Majesty’s Privy Purse.
2. When permission is given by Warrant under the Royal Sign-
Manual, the Insignia of the Foreign Order may be worn at all times and
without any restriction.
When restricted permission is given the Insignia may only be worn
on the occasions specified in the terms of the letter from the Keeper
of His Majesty’s Privy Purse conveying the Royal sanction.
3. Full and unrestricted permission by Warrant under the Royal
Sign-Manual is contemplated in the following cases :—
For a Decoration conferred—
On an Officer in His Majesty’s Naval, Military or Air Forces lent to a
Foreign Government ; on an Officer in His Majesty’s Naval, Military or
Air Forces attached by His Majesty’s Government to a Foreign Navy,
A.rmy or Air Force during hostilities ; or on any British Official lent to'a
Foreign Government and not in receipt of any emoluments from British
public funds during the period of such loan.
4. Restricted permission is particularly contemplated for Decorations
which have been conferred in recognition of personal attention to a foreign
Sovereign, the Head of a Foreign State, or a member of a foreign Royal
lamily, and wffiich are therefore of a more or less complimentary character,
but will also be granted for Decorations conferred on other exceptional
occasions when in the public interest it is deemed expedient that they should
be accepted.
5. Restiicted permission will generally be given for Decorations
conferred in the following cases, but, as indicated in the preceding para
graph, will not necessarily be limited to these cases :—
^ (1) On British Ambassadors or Ministers abroad when the King pays,
a State visit to the country to which they are accredited ;
(Aote. A State visit is defined as one on which the King is accom
panied by a Minister or High Official in attendance.)
(2) On Members of Deputations of British Regiments to Foreign Heads
of States ;
Cf. } Foreign
22nd May 1928.
and Political Department Notification No. 310-H., dated the