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. Full and unrestricted permission by Warrant under the 
Royal Sign-Manual is contemplated in the following cases: — 
For a Decoration conferred— 
On an Officer in His Majesty’s Naval, Military or Air 
Forces lent to a Foreign Government; on an Officer in His 
Majesty’s Naval, Military or Air Forces attached by His 
Majesty’s Government to a Foreign Navy, Army or Air Force 
during hostilities; or on any British Official lent to a Foreign 
Government and not in receipt of any emoluments from 
British public funds during the period of such loan. 
4. Restricted permission is particularly contemplated for 
Decorations which have been conferred in recognition of 
Personal 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 when in the public interest 
it is deemed expedient that they should be accepted. 
5. Restricted permission will generally be given for Decora- 
tions conferred in the following cases, but, as indicated in 
the preceding paragraph, will not necessarily be limited to 
these cases: — 
(1) On British Ambassadors or Ministers abroad when 
the King pays a State visit to the country to which 
they are accredited; 
(Nore.—A State visit is defined as one on which the 
King is accompanied by a Minister or High Official 
in attendance.) 
(2) On Members of Deputations of British Regiments 
to Foreign Heads of States: 
(3) On Members of Special Missions when the King is 
represented at a Foreign Coronation, Wedding, Tuneral, 
or similar occasion; or on any Diplomatic Representative 
when specially accredited to represent His Majesty on 
such occasions (but not on the members of his Staff). 
Restricted permission will Nor be given to— 
(@) British Ambassadors or Ministers abroad when 
leaving, except on final retirement from His Majesty's 
Diplomatic Service and in respect of a decoration offered 
by the Head of State to whom they were last accredited