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woar the Insignia of a Foreign Order, he shall signify the 
same to His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the 
Home Department, in order that he may cause a Warrant, 
if it be a case for the issue of a Warrant as defined in Rule 2, 
to be prepared for the Royal Sign-Manual. 
When such Warrant shall have been signed by the King, 
a notification thereof shall be inserted in the ‘* Gazette.” 
Persons in whose favour such Warrants are issued will be 
required to pay to His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State 
for the Home Department a stamp duty of 10s. 
7. The Warrant signifying His Majesty’s permission may, 
at the request and at the expense of the person who has 
obtained it, be registered in the College of Arms. Every 
such Warrant as aforesaid shall contain a clause providing 
that His Majesty’s licence and permission does not authorise 
the assumption of any style, appellation, rank, precedence, 
or privilege appertaining to a Knight Bachelor of His 
Majesty's Realms. 
MEDALS. 
8. Medals, with the exceptions specified below, and State 
decorations not carrying membership of an Order of Chivalry, 
are subject to the Regulations in the same manner as Orders, 
but permission to wear is given by Letter and not by Royal 
Warrant. No permission is needed to accept a Foreign Medal 
if it is not to be worn. 
9. Medals for saving or attempting to save life at sea or 
on land, whether conferred on behalf of the Head or Govern- 
ment of a Foreign State, or by private Life Saving Societies 
or Institutions, may be accepted and worn without His 
Majesty's special permission. 
Applications for His Majesty’s permission to wear other 
Medals conferred by Private Societies or Institutions, and 
Commemorative Medals, cannot be entertained. 
10. His Majesty will not grant permission to wear any 
Foreign War Medal if the person on whom it is to be or has 
been conferred was during the war acting in contravention of 
the Foreign Enlistment Act. 
(GENERAL. 
11. Ladies are subject to the Regulations in all respects in 
the same manner as men. 
Foreign Office, 
March, 1928.