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(c)When the total personnel of the unit exceeds 200 in number, the number of Crosses to
be awarded in accordance with these provisions shall be the subject of special consideration
by Our Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty or by one of Our Principal Secretaries of State
or, in the case of any Member Country of the Commonwealth overseas, the appropriate
Minister of State for the said Member Country, for submission to Us;
(d)The selection is to be by a secret ballot in such a manner as shall be determined in
accordance with the foregoing provisions by the Officer directing the selection to be made;
(e)The death of any person engaged shall not be a bar to his selection; Reference in this
Clause to male members of any Forces shall be deemed to include the equivalent ranks of
the Women’s Auxiliary Services of such Forces;
(g)The names of the persons recommended in accordance with these provisions shall be
submitted to Us in the manner laid down in the Eighth Clause of this Our Warrant.
Tenthly:It is ordained that every recipient of the Cross, not coming within the provisions
of the Eleventh Clause of this Our Warrant, to whom the Cross may be awarded after the
31st day of July 1959 shall from the date of the act by which the Decoration has been gained,
be entitled to a special pension of one hundred pounds a year.
Eleventhly:It is ordained that, subject to such exceptions as We, Our Heirs and Successors
may ordain, a member of the Forces of a Member Country of the Commonwealth Overseas
to whom the Cross or bar may be awarded after the 31st day of July 1959, shall receive such
special pension or pensions as may be provided from the revenues of that Country, under
regulations made by the said Country.
Twelfthly:It is ordained that, as from the first day of August 1959, every recipient of the
Decoration:-
(a)who was then receiving from moneys provided by Our Parliament of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Northern Ireland a special pension awarded under the rules and
ordinances relating to the Decoration in force from time to time, or
(b)who would then have been so receiving such a special pension if he had not been or
ranked as a Commissioned Officer or in the case of Our Navy and Marines he had not
been or ranked with a Warrant Officer, or
(c)in respect of whom such a special pension would have been currently in issue on the
31st day of March 1955, if he had not been or ranked as a Commissioned Officer and
would, if it had been so in issue, have fallen within any of the descriptions of pensions in
the annexe contained in the First Schedule to The Pensions (India, Pakistan and Burma)
Act, 1955, shall receive a special pension of one hundred pounds a year, which in cases
coming within category (a) above shall be in substitution for any special pension in
respect of the Decoration which was previously in issue to him.
Thirteenthly:It is ordained that where a recipient of the Decoration coming within the
provision of(a)of the Twelfth Clause of this Our Warrant was a Gurkha Commissioned
Officer or a soldier of Our Brigade of Gurkhas, his widow shall receive, with effect from the
date of his death and until her remarriage or death, a special pension equal to the special
pension which was in payment to him immediately before the first day of August, 1959.
Fourteenthly:It is ordained that reproductions of the Cross known as a Miniature Cross
which may be worn on certain occasions by those to whom the Decoration is awarded shall
be half the size of The Victoria Cross and that a Sealed Pattern of the said Miniature Cross
shall be deposited and kept in the Central Chancery of Our Orders of Knighthood.
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