Singapore Civil Defence Force Long Service and Good Conduct Medal (Amendment) Rules 2004

No. S 228

Singapore Civil Defence Force
Long Service and Good Conduct Medal
(Amendment) Rules 2004

The President hereby makes the following Rules:

Citation and commencement

1.—(1) These Rules may be cited as the Singapore Civil Defence Force Long Service and Good Conduct Medal (Amendment) Rules 2004.

(2) Rules 2 and 3 shall be deemed to have come into operation on 20th September 2003.

(3) Rules 4 and 5 shall come into operation on 27th April 2004.

Deletion and substitution of rule 5

2. Rule 5 of the Singapore Civil Defence Force Long Service and Good Conduct Medal Rules 1994 (G.N. No. S 125/94) (referred to in these Rules as the principal Rules) is deleted and the following rule substituted therefor:

“5. The Medal or Clasp shall be awarded by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs, acting in accordance with the recommendation of the Commissioner of Civil Defence.”.

Amendment of rule 7

3. Rule 7 of the principal Rules is amended —

(a)

by deleting sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (1) and substituting the following sub-paragraph:

“(b)	if the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs, so directs on the recommendation of the Commissioner of Civil Defence.”; and

(b)

by deleting the word “President” in paragraph (2) and substituting the words “Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs,”.

Deletion and substitution of rules 9 and 10 and new rule 10A

4. Rules 9 and 10 of the principal Rules are deleted and the following rules substituted therefor:

“9.—(1) The Medal shall consist of an 8-armed star shape medal in 925 sterling silver and shall measure 42 mm in diameter and 3 mm in thickness.

(2) The obverse side of the Medal shall bear the Singapore Coat-of-Arms encircled by the inscriptions “CIVIL DEFENCE FORCE” above the Coat-of-Arms and “SINGAPORE” beneath the Coat-of-Arms.

(3) The reverse side of the Medal shall bear the Singapore Civil Defence Force Crest within a laurel wreath and with a scroll underneath the laurel wreath.

(4) The Crest on the reverse side of the Medal shall be encircled by the inscription “LONG SERVICE AND GOOD CONDUCT”.

10.—(1) The Medal shall be worn by the recipient on the left side of the outer garment and shall be suspended by a ribbon.

(2) The ribbon shall be 33 mm in width and 50 mm in length.

(3) The ribbon shall have vertical stripes in orange, white and maroon.

(4) The stripes from the right and left of the ribbon to the centre of the ribbon shall be orange, white, maroon and white, respectively.

(5) The width of the orange stripes on the ribbon shall be 8 mm.

(6) The width of the white stripe in the centre of the ribbon shall be 5 mm.

(7) The width of the maroon stripes and outer white stripes shall be 3 mm each.

(8) Where the Medal is awarded for 20 years in service, there shall be one Bar on the Medal bearing a row of laurels.

(9) Where the Medal is awarded for 30 years in service, there shall be 2 Bars on the Medal bearing a row of laurels each.

(10) The Bar shall be 33 mm in length and 5 mm in width.

10A. The miniature version of the Medal shall be identical to the full size Medal as described in rules 9 and 10 except that the dimensions specified in those rules (other than the length of the ribbon) shall be reduced by half.”.

Deletion and substitution of Schedule

5. The Schedule to the principal Rules is deleted and the following Schedule substituted therefor:

“THE SCHEDULE

Rule 11

Singapore Civil Defence Force
Long Service and Good Conduct Medal