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that it shall be competent for Us, Our Heirs or Successors, to confer the Medal upon not more than five Members of Our Civil Services in each year, who have retired after less than the specified years of service, should the special circumstances justify the grant.

Fifteenthly.—It is ordained that the Imperial Service Medal, for men and women, shall be a circular medal of silver bearing the effigy of the Sovereign on the obverse, and on the reverse the words “ For Faithful Service ”; and that the name of the recipient shall be engraved on the rim: and it is further ordained that the Imperial Service Medal shall be worn in similar manner to that prescribed for the Imperial Service Order.

Sixteenthly.—It is ordained that the names of those persons to whom the Imperial Service Medal shall be granted shall be duly published in the London Gazette.

Seventeenthly.—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 a recommendation to that effect by or through Our Prime Minister, 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Successors, to restore any Imperial Service Medal which may have been so forfeited when such recommendation has been withdrawn.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, should his or her name be erased as aforesaid, to return the Medal to the Registrar of the Order. Such agreements entered into under past Statutes, Warrants, or Regulations of this Order shall have effect as if made under this Statute and an agreement made to return a Medal when called upon to do so by an Under-Secretary of State shall have effect as though it had been an agreement to return a Medal at the request of the Registrar of the Order.

Eighteenthly.—It is ordained that the Seal of this Order shall consist of the Arms: Gules, a representation of the Badge of the Order impaling Our Royal Arms, with the following circumscription “ The Seal of the Imperial Service Order ”; and that the Statutes of the Order shall be sealed by and with the same.

Nineteenthly.—It is ordained that the following Officers shall be appointed to this Order, that is to say a Secretary and a Registrar.

Twentiethly.—It is ordained that the Secretary of this Order shall be the Permanent Secretary to the Treasury, that he shall collect and tabulate the names of all those persons who are to be submitted to Us, Our Heirs or Successors by Our Prime Minister, whether in the Home Civil Service or, on the recommendation of a Secretary of State, for one of the other allocations, for admission to this Order or to be awarded the Medal of the Order, and that in all ceremonies of this Order he shall wear pendant from a gold chain round his neck, a representation of the badge of the Order, with, in the centre, two pens in saltire in pearl enamel in place of the Royal and Imperial Cypher, the whole within a circle of gold inscribed “ Secretary of the Imperial Service Order.”

It is ordained that the Registrar of this Order shall be the Secretary of the Central Chancery of Our Orders of Knighthood, that he shall have the custody of the archives of the Order, and in all ceremonies of the Order shall wear pendant from a gold chain round his neck, a representation of the badge of the Order with, in the centre, a closed book in red enamel, in place of the Royal and Imperial Cypher, the whole within a circle of gold inscribed “ Registrar of the Imperial Service Order.”

On the resignation or decease of an Officer of the Order, his Badge of Office shall be restored for the Service of the Order.

Twenty-firstly.—It is ordained that the miniature Badges worn by the Companions of this Order shall be half the size of the Badges worn by the Companions; and that sealed patterns of the said miniature Badges shall be deposited and kept in the Central Chancery of Our Orders of Knighthood.

Twenty-secondly.—We reserve to Ourselves, Our Heirs and Successors, full power of annulling, altering, abrogating, augmenting, interpreting, or dispensing with these Statutes and Regulations or any part thereof, by a notification under the Sign Manual of the Sovereign of the Order.

Given at Our Court at Saint James’s, this first day of October, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight in the Second Year of Our reign.

By His Majesty’s Command,

SAMUEL HOARE,

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