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Civil Service, two hundred to Our Civil Services in India, including the Staff of Our Secretary of State for India, and two hundred and fifty to the Civil Services of our Dominions beyond the Seas, and Countries under Our Protection, including the Staff of the Crown Agents for the Colonies.

AND it is Our Will and Pleasure that this Statute shall be taken and received as part and parcel of the Statutes of the said Order.

Given at Our Court at Saint James’s, the first day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, in the Nineteenth Year of Our Reign.

By His Majesty’s Command,
W. JOYNSON-HICKS.

GEORGE R. I.

GEORGE THE FIFTH, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India, Sovereign of the Imperial Service Order, to all to whom these Presents shall come: Greeting!

WHEREAS by Warrants under Our Royal Sign Manual, dated the ninth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, the sixteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, the seventeenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, the fourteenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, and the first day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, We were graciously pleased to Make, Ordain, and Establish Statutes and Ordinances for the government of the Imperial Service Order and the Imperial Service Medal, reserving to Ourselves, Our Heirs and Successors full power of annulling, altering, abrogating and augmenting, interpreting and dispensing with those Statutes by a notification under the Sign Manual of the Sovereign of the said Order:

AND WHEREAS We are minded to make certain amendments to the Statutes of the said Order:

Now We do by these Presents for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, abrogate the said Warrant of the fourteenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, and in lieu thereof Make, Ordain and Establish the following Statutes:—

Fourteenthly.—It is ordained that it shall be competent for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, by an Order under Our Sign Manual and on a recommendation to that effect by or through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State, 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: Provided that it shall be competent for Us, Our Heirs and Successors to restore to the Order any person whose appointment may have been so cancelled and annulled when such recommendation has been withdrawn.

Eighteenthly.—It is ordained that it shall be competent for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, by an Order under Our Sign Manual and on a recommendation to that effect by or through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State, to cancel and annul the award to any person of an Imperial Service Medal and that thereupon his or her name in the Register shall be erased: Provided that it shall be competent for Us, Our Heirs and Successors to restore any Imperial Service Medal which may have been so forfeited when such recommendation has been withdrawn. And every person to whom the said Medal is awarded shall, before receiving the same, enter into an agreement to return it if his or her name shall be erased as aforesaid.

AND it is Our Will and Pleasure that these Statutes shall be taken and received as part and parcel of the Statutes of the said Order.

Given at Our Court at Balmoral, the twenty-fifth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-two, in the Twenty-third Year of Our Reign.

By His Majesty’s Command,
SAMUEL HOARE.