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9. 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. The full and unrestricted permission by Warrant under 
the Royal Sign-Manual is designed to meet cases in which 
the Decoration has been earned by valuable service rendered 
to the Head of the State conferring it, or to the State itself. 
Such service must have been both of manifest and substantial 
value to the Head of the State or State concerned and not in- 
consistent with British interests; and must have been rendered 
within the period of five years immediately preceding the 
notification of the Decoration to His Majesty’s Government 
as prescribed under Rule 5. 
4. Restricted permission is particularly contemplated for 
Decorations which have been conferred in recognition of per- 
sonal attention to a Foreign Sovereign, the Head of a 
Foreign State, or a member of a Foreign Royal Family, and 
which are therefore of a more or less complimentary character, 
but will also be granted for Decorations conferred on other 
exceptional occasions, in the case of services of manifest and 
substantial value when not rendered direct to the Foreign 
State, or when in the public interest it is deemed expedient 
that they should be accepted. 
Restricted permission will not be granted in the case of 
Decorations conferred for services rendered more than five 
vears previously. 
5. Both in the case of full and of restricted permission the 
matter will be submitted to the King by His Majesty’s Prin- 
cipal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, who shall be 
under no obligation to consider applications for permission 
unless the desire of the Head of a Foreign State to confer 
upon a British subject the Insignia of an Order is notified to 
him before the Order is conferred, either through the British 
Diplomatic Representative accredited to the Head of the 
Foreign State, or through the Diplomatic Representative of 
the latter at the Court of St. James. 
6. When His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for 
Foreign Affairs shall have taken the King’s pleasure on any 
such application, and shall have obtained His Majesty’s per- 
mission for the person in whose favour it has been made to