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in the Colonial Regulations, and will retain that pre- 
cedence notwithstanding the presence of the chief 
superior officers of the whole naval and military com- 
mands. No other naval or military officers have any 
place at all in the general table of Colonial precedence, 
and the places accorded therein to the senior naval 
officer and the senior military officer have no connec- 
tion, except as between those two officers, with the 
regulations governing naval and military precedence. 
133. 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. 
134. Members of the Royal Family take precedence 
in a Colony 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 permanently residing in any Colony. 
In the absence of special instructions from the King, 
and subject to any specific provision in the authorised 
local tables, the precedence within a Colony of all 
persons holding office or discharging official duties, 
whether naval, military, or civil, within that Colony 
is determined solely by official rank, and the wives of 
such persons, even though they enjoy precedence in 
‘he 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 His Majesty's dominions, are not entitled as 
of right to the same precedence elsewhere. In the 
absence of any special instructions from the King, the 
precedence of such persons will be determined by the 
Governor.