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Supplementto Official Gazette No. 46, Vol. 53, 5th May, 1966—-Part
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THE NATIONAL HONOURS ACT 1964
(1964 No. 5)
ARRANGEMENT OF ARTICLES
Citation, commencement and interpretation.
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Establishment, etc. of medals for police force. .
Eligibility for award of medals. .
. Awardof bar or clasp for additionalservices.
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Recommendation‘for;medals, bars and clasps.
Mode of awarding medals,ete.
Form of medals, etc.
Miniatures and ribbons.
Deprivation and restoration.
Replacement of lost medal.
L.N. 31 of 1966
The Honours (Police) Warrant 1966
Commencement : 1st October 1965
In exercise of the powers conferred on me by the National
Honours Act
1964 and of all other powers enabling me in that behalf, I, Major-
Aguiyi-Ironsi, Head of the Federal Military Government,
General jJ.T.U.
Supreme Comman-
der of the Armed Forces, hereby make the following
warrant :—
1.—(1) This warrant may becited as the Honours (Police) Warra
nt 1966 Citation,
_and shall haveeffect as if it had been made on Ist October 1965. commence-
(2) In this warrant— ment and
. inter-
“holder”, in relation to a police medalor clasp means a person who has pretation.
been awarded that medal or clasp and has not been deprived thereof,
or who having been awardedit or deprived ofit, has hadit restored to him ;
“police force’ means the Nigeria Police Force or the Nigeria Special
Constabulary;
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(3) In the case of a ribbon which in pursuance of this warrant is divided
laterally into a numberofdivisions, references in this warrant— °
(a) to the first of those divisions is a reference to thedivision which,
when the ribbon is viewed from thefront, lies to the left of all the other
divisions ;
(4) to the second of those divisions is a reference to the division adjacent
to the first division,
and so on fromleft to right.
