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person from a lower class in one Division to a higher class in the other Division of this Order, the Insignia of the class theretofore worn by him or her, unless awarded for Military Service in the Great War, 1914–1918, shall be returned to the Registrar of the Order for the Service of the Order, and that on the resignation or decease of an Official of the Order his Badge of Office shall be restored for the service of the Order.

XXXIV. It is Ordained that for the greater honour and dignity of this Order it shall and may be lawful for the Knights Grand Cross and Dames Grand Cross of this Order upon all occasions to bear Supporters to their Arms; and We do by these Presents direct and command Our Garter Principal King of Arms for the time being to grant Supporters to such Knights Grand Cross and Dames Grand Cross of this Order as shall not otherwise be entitled thereto; and that it shall also be lawful for Knights Grand Cross and Dames Grand Cross of this Order to surround their Armorial Bearings with the circle and motto of the Order and to suspend therefrom a representation of their riband and badge, and for Knights Commanders, Dames Commanders and Commanders of this Order to surround their Armorial Bearings with the circle and motto of the Order and to suspend therefrom a representation of their riband and badge, and for the Officers and Members of the Order to suspend a representation of their riband and respective badges from the bottom of the escutcheon containing their Armorial Bearings.

XXXV. It is Ordained that the Seal of the Order shall consist of the arms purpure a representation of the Badge, of the First Class of the Order proper impaling Our Royal Arms, with the following circumscription “The Seal of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire,” and that the Statutes of the Order shall be sealed by and with the same.

XXXVI. It is Ordained that it shall be competent for Us, Our heirs and successors, by an Ordinance signed by the Sovereign and sealed with the Seal of the Order and on the recommendation to that effect by or through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State whose Department the matter doth properly concern, to cancel and annul the appointment of any person to this Order, and that thereupon his or her name in the Register shall be erased; but that it shall be competent for the Sovereign to restore to the Order any person whose appointment may have been so cancelled and annulled when such recommendation has been withdrawn.

XXXVII. It is Ordained that a Military and Civil Medal of this Order shall be awarded to persons who perform acts of gallantry warranting such mark of Our Royal appreciation, and that any person to whom such Medal has been, or may be, awarded may, on all occasions when the use of such letters is customary, place after his or her names the letters “E.G.M.” (Empire Gallantry Medal) and that any Member of the Order upon whom such Medal has been, or may be, conferred shall be entitled to wear it in addition to the Insignia of the Order. It is also Ordained that a further act of gallantry deemed worthy of the award of the Medal performed by a person upon whom the Medal has been conferred shall be recorded by a Bar attached to the riband from which the Medal is suspended, and that for every additional such act an additional bar may be awarded.

XXXVIII. It is further Ordained that a Military and Civil Medal of this Order shall be awarded to persons who render meritorious service warranting such mark of Our Royal appreciation. Such Civil Medal shall not be awarded to Members of any of the five Classes of the Order or to persons eligible for appointment thereto, and such Military Medal shall only be awarded to persons subordinate to those who are eligible for the Military Division of the various Classes of the Order, but a recipient of the Medal, whether Military or Civil, who may subsequently be appointed a Member of one of the five Classes of the Order, may continue to wear the Medal in addition to the Insignia of the Order.

XXXIX. It is Ordained that the Medal of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for men and for women shall consist of a circular medal in silver, having on the obverse a representation of Britannia with the motto of the Order, and, upon the exergue, the words “FOR GALLANTRY,” or “FOR MERITORIOUS SERVICE,” and on the reverse the Royal and Imperial Cypher of the Sovereign,

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