REVISED STATUTES

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 159, 1 April 1938, Page 10

REVISED STATUTES

Order Of British Empire

Revised statutes relating to the order of knighthood known as the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire are published as a supplement to the Gazette issued last evening. The supplement also contains the statutes covering the award of the Imperial Service Order. The statutes for the two orders were received as dispatches from the Dominions Office. The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire consists of the Sovereign and a Grand Master and of five classes —Knights Grand Cross and Dames Grand Cross, Knights Commanders and Dames Commanders, Commanders, Officers, and Members. Each of these five classes contains two sub-divisions, military and civil, and each sub-diyl-sion is composed partly of ordinary (md partly of honorary members. The statutes give the class of persons eligible for appointment to the military and civil divisions, the maximum number that can hold the order at one time, the maximum number that can be appointed annually, and the basis of allocation to the United Kingdom, Dominions. colonies, mandated territories, and overseas dependencies. The order of precedence is also given and a description of the insignia pertaining to the various cljisses. Similar information is given in respect of the Imperial Service Order.