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Letters patent repealing the General Campaign Star and General Service Medal Regulations

P.C. 2010-79 January 14, 2010

Whereas, by letters patent issued on May 21, 2004, the General Campaign Star and the General Service Medal were instituted and created in Canada;

Whereas those letters patent ordained, directed and appointed that the award of the Star and the Medal shall be provided for by the General Campaign Star and General Service Medal Regulations annexed to the letters patent;

And whereas it is desirable and Our Privy Council for Canada has advised that letters patent do issue repealing those Regulations and making the annexed General Campaign Star and General Service Medal Regulations, 2009 in substitution;

Therefore, Her Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Prime Minister, hereby orders that letters patent do issue, under the Great Seal of Canada, repealing the General Campaign Star and General Service Medal Regulations and making the annexed General Campaign Star and General Service Medal Regulations, 2009 in substitution.

MICHAËLLE JEAN

[Great Seal of Canada]

CANADA

ELIZABETH THE SECOND, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom, Canada and Her other Realms and Territories QUEEN, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith.

To all to whom these presents shall come or whom the same may in any way concern,

GREETING:

Whereas, by letters patent issued on May 21, 2004, We instituted and created in Canada the General Campaign Star and the General Service Medal for the purpose of according recognition to any person enrolled in, attached to or working with the Canadian Forces who participated in or provided direct support on a full-time basis to operations in the presence of an armed enemy;

Whereas, by those letters patent, We directed that the award of the General Campaign Star and the General Service Medal shall be provided for by the General Campaign Star and General Service Medal Regulations annexed to the letters patent;

And whereas it is desirable and Our Privy Council for Canada has advised that letters patent do issue repealing the General Campaign Star and General Service Medal Regulations and making the annexed General Campaign Star and General Service Medal Regulations, 2009 in substitution;

Now know you that We, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council for Canada, do by these presents repeal the General Campaign Star and General Service Medal Regulations and make the annexed General Campaign Star and General Service Medal Regulations, 2009 in substitution.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patent and the Great Seal of Canada to be hereunto affixed.

WITNESS:

Our Right Trusty and Well-beloved Michaëlle Jean, Chancellor and Principal Companion of Our Order of Canada, Chancellor and Commander of Our Order of Military Merit, Chancellor and Commander of Our Order of Merit of the Police Forces, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada.

AT OUR GOVERNMENT HOUSE, in Our City of Ottawa, this seventeenth day of February in the year of Our Lord two thousand and ten and in the fifty-ninth year of Our Reign.

BY HER MAJESTY’S COMMAND,

STEPHEN HARPER

PRIME MINISTER OF CANADA

GENERAL CAMPAIGN STAR AND GENERAL SERVICE MEDAL REGULATIONS, 2009

INTERPRETATION

1. The definitions in this section apply in these Regulations.

“Medal” means the General Service Medal described in section 3. (Médaille)

“Rotation Bar” means a bar described in subsections 2(5) or 3(5). (Barrette de rotation)

“Star” means the General Campaign Star described in section 2. (Étoile)

DESCRIPTION

2. (1) The Star shall be 44 mm across and shall consist of a gold-coloured four-point star representing the cardinal points of a compass. It shall have a small ball at the tip of the top point with a ring attached to it through which a ribbon passes.

(2) On the obverse of the Star, built up in order from the back, shall appear

(a) a wreath of maple leaves terminating at the top with the Royal Crown;

(b) two crossed swords, blades upwards, the blades and hilts forming four additional points to the Star;

(c) a fouled anchor; and

(d) an eagle flying affronty, its head to the sinister, and its wings outstretched extending beyond the wreath.

(3) On the reverse of the Star, within a raised circle, shall appear from top to bottom

(a) the Royal Cypher ensigned by the Royal Crown;

(b) a space for the engraving referred to in subsection (6); and

(c) three maple leaves conjoined on one stem.

(4) The Star shall be suspended from a ribbon that is representative of the type of service or the geographic area for which it is awarded, and that is specified by the Governor in Council under paragraph 9(b).

(5) The Rotation Bars to the Star shall be gold-coloured with raised edges and shall bear either one or five maple leaves.

(6) The Star shall be engraved on the reverse with the recipient’s service number, rank, forename initials and surname.

3. (1) The Medal shall be 36 mm across and shall consist of a silver-coloured circular medal with a claw at the top that is attached to a straight slotted bar. The claw shall be in the form of a central maple leaf overlapping two others.

(2) On the obverse of the Medal shall appear the contemporary crowned effigy of Her Majesty the Queen of Canada, facing to the sinister, and circumscribed with the inscriptions “ELIZABETH II DEI GRATIA REGINA” and “CANADA”, separated by small crosses pattée.

(3) On the reverse of the Medal, built up in order from the back, shall appear

(a) two crossed swords, blades upwards;

(b) a fouled anchor; and

(c) an eagle flying affronty, its head to the sinister and wings outstretched.

The whole shall be surmounted by the Royal Crown and surrounded by two branches of maple leaves.

(4) The Medal shall be suspended from a ribbon that is representative of the type of service or the geographic area for which it is awarded, and that is specified by the Governor in Council under paragraph 9(b).

(5) The Rotation Bars to the Medal shall be silver-coloured with raised edges and shall bear either one or five maple leaves.

(6) The Medal shall be engraved on the rim with the military or police recipient’s service number, rank, forename initials and surname or with the civilian recipient’s forenames and surname.

ELIGIBILITY

4. Subject to section 7, the Star may be awarded to any person who

(a) is a member of the Canadian Forces and has been deployed outside Canada in a theatre of operations, in a special duty area or on a special duty operation in the presence of an armed enemy; or

(b) is a member of an allied force and has worked as an integral part of the Canadian Forces, such as exchange personnel, and otherwise meets the criteria applicable to a member of the Canadian Forces referred to in paragraph (a).

5. Despite section 4, the Governor General may, on the recommendation of the Chief of the Defence Staff, award the Star to any person who has rendered distinguished services, under exceptional circumstances, such as taking direct actions against the enemy, and is a Canadian citizen in the employ of Her Majesty in right of Canada or a Canadian citizen under contract with the Government of Canada and otherwise meets the criteria applicable to a member of the Canadian Forces referred to in paragraph 4(a).

6. (1) Subject to subsection (2) and section 7, the Medal may be awarded to any person who

(a) is a member of the Canadian Forces and has been deployed outside Canada to provide direct support on a full-time basis to operations in the presence of an armed enemy but not necessarily inside a theatre of operations, in a special duty area or on a special duty operation;

(b) is a member of an allied force and has worked as an integral part of the Canadian Forces, such as exchange personnel, and otherwise meets the criteria applicable to a member of the Canadian Forces referred to in paragraph (a); or

(c) is a Canadian citizen in the employ of Her Majesty in right of Canada or a Canadian citizen under contract with the Government of Canada, and has been deployed outside Canada either inside or outside a theatre of operations, in a special duty area or on special duty operation to provide direct support on a full-time basis to operations in the presence of an armed enemy as part of a military mission.

(2) To be eligible to be awarded the Medal, the person must have provided the direct support under exceptional circumstances and must have been deployed specifically to provide that support on a full-time basis to the operations. Recognition may be provided only when the deployment involves a certain level of risk, threat, hardship or operational intensity. Any support that is comparable in nature to normal duty or performed from the relative safety of a country distant from the theatre of operations shall be excluded from eligibility.

7. The following do not constitute eligible service:

(a) visits and inspections for the purpose of leadership, command or familiarization;

(b) ceremonial or morale visits by civilian or military dignitaries;

(c) staff assistance visits;

(d) staff inspection visits;

(e) specialist visits for the conduct of summary, criminal or administrative investigations, courts martial, boards of inquiry, trial evaluations, academic studies or surveys;

(f) work by embedded journalists or war artists; and

(g) any other similar activity.

8. The Star and the Medal shall only be awarded with a ribbon that identifies the specific type of service rendered or the geographic area in which the recipient served.

9. The Governor in Council shall

(a) determine the conditions that must be satisfied for service to be recognized as worthy of the award of a specific ribbon; and

(b) specify the design of the ribbons.

10. A recipient of the Star or Medal may be awarded a Rotation Bar if the person has served an additional 180 cumulative days of service after qualifying for the Star, Medal or the last Rotation Bar that the person has earned.

11. The Star, the Medal and the Rotation Bars are awarded for honourable service.

12. (1) Any person who dies or is evacuated for medical reasons that are directly attributable to service is deemed to have satisfied any condition that is determined by the Governor in Council under paragraph 9(a).

(2) Any recipient of the Star or Medal who dies or is evacuated for medical reasons that are directly attributable to service shall be credited the entire period that they would have served had they completed their tour of duty for the purpose of calculating eligibility for Rotation Bars.

13. (1) The Star and the Medal together with the same ribbon shall only be awarded to a person once, and any additional qualifying service in respect of the same type of service or in the same geographic area is to be recognized by the award of Rotation Bars.

(2) When a person meets the criteria for both the Star or its Rotation Bar and the Medal or its Rotation Bar in respect of the same type of service or in the same geographic area within a period of 180 eligible days, the person shall only be awarded the Star or its Rotation Bar.

(3) Eligible service for the Star or a Rotation Bar to the Star and for the Medal or a Rotation Bar to the Medal shall not be combined.

(4) The service counted towards the Star, Medal or Rotation Bars may not be counted towards any other Canadian or foreign service medal.

AWARD

14. An award of the Star, the Medal and the Rotation Bars shall be made

(a) on the recommendation of the Chief of the Defence Staff, who shall make a list of all persons, military and civilian, who are eligible to be awarded the Star, the Medal or the Rotation Bars and shall forward the list to the Governor General; and

(b) by an instrument signed by the Governor General.

15. The Star, the Medal and the Rotation Bars may be awarded posthumously.

PRESENTATION

16. Unless the Governor General otherwise directs, the Star, the Medal and the Rotation Bars shall be presented to a recipient, as arranged by the Chief of the Defence Staff.

WEARING OF MEDALS AND BARS

17. (1) The Star shall be worn after the South-West Asia Service Medal on the left breast. The Governor in Council shall determine the order of precedence of the Stars with their specific ribbons.

(2) The Medal shall be worn after the Star on the left breast. The Governor in Council shall determine the order of precedence of the Medals with their specific ribbons.

(3) One Rotation Bar shall be worn centred on the ribbon.

(4) One Rotation Bar bearing five maples leaves shall be worn instead of five single maple leaf Rotation Bars.

(5) When several Rotation Bars are awarded, they shall be spaced evenly on the ribbon in the order that they were earned. The first Rotation Bar earned shall be worn closest to the Star or Medal.

(6) When the undress ribbon is worn, a silver maple leaf shall be worn centred on the ribbon of the Medal to indicate the award of a Rotation Bar, a gold maple leaf shall be worn to indicate the award of a second Rotation Bar and a red maple leaf shall be worn to indicate the award of a third Rotation Bar. If more than three Rotation Bars have been awarded, the maple leaves shall be worn in combination so as to indicate the total number of Rotation Bars awarded.

18. A recipient of the Star or Medal may wear a miniature medal, which is one-half the size of the Star or Medal, on all occasions when the wearing of miniature medals is customary.

CANCELLATION AND REINSTATEMENT

19. (1) The Governor General may, on the recommendation of the Chief of the Defence Staff,

(a) cancel or annul the award of the Star, the Medal or a Rotation Bar to any person; and

(b) restore the award of a Star, Medal or Rotation Bar that has been cancelled or annulled.

(2) If the award of a Star, Medal or Rotation Bar is cancelled or annulled, the recipient’s name shall be deleted from the register referred to in paragraph 20(c).

ADMINISTRATION

20. The Director, Honours, Chancellery of Honours shall

(a) acquire the Stars, the Medals and the Rotation Bars;

(b) provide the Stars, the Medals and the Rotation Bars to the Chief of the Defence Staff;

(c) maintain a register containing the names of recipients of the Star, the Medal and the Rotation Bars associated with them and any other records that relate to the award that the Director considers necessary; and

(d) perform any other functions in respect of awards of the Star, the Medal and the Rotation Bars that the Governor General may require the Director to perform.

GENERAL

21. Nothing in these Regulations limits the right of the Governor General to exercise all of the powers and authorities of Her Majesty in respect of the Star, the Medal and the Rotation Bars.

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GOVERNMENT HOUSE

Letters patent repealing the South-West Asia Service Medal Regulations

P.C. 2010-80 January 14, 2010

Whereas by letters patent issued on July 31, 2002, the South-West Asia Service Medal was instituted and created in Canada;

Whereas those letters patent ordained, directed and appointed that the award of the Medal shall be provided for by the South-West Asia Service Medal Regulations annexed to the letters patent;

And whereas it is desirable and Our Privy Council for Canada has advised that letters patent do issue repealing those Regulations and making the annexed South-West Asia Service Medal Regulations, 2009 in substitution;

Therefore, Her Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Prime Minister, hereby orders that letters patent do issue, under the Great Seal of Canada, repealing the South-West Asia Service Medal Regulations and making the annexed South-West Asia Service Medal Regulations, 2009 in substitution.

MICHAËLLE JEAN

[Great Seal of Canada]

CANADA

ELIZABETH THE SECOND, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom, Canada and Her other Realms and Territories QUEEN, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith.

To all to whom these presents shall come or whom the same may in any way concern,

GREETING:

Whereas, by letters patent issued on July 31, 2002, We instituted and created in Canada the South-West Asia Service Medal for the purpose of according recognition to any person enrolled in, attached to or working with the Canadian Forces while the Forces were engaged in operations against terrorism in South-West Asia after September 11, 2001;

Whereas, by those letters patent, We directed that the award of the Medal shall be provided for by the South-West Asia Service Medal Regulations annexed to the letters patent;

And whereas it is desirable and Our Privy Council for Canada has advised that letters patent do issue repealing the South-West Asia Service Medal Regulations and making the annexed South-West Asia Service Medal Regulations, 2009 in substitution;

Now know you that We, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council for Canada, do by these presents repeal South-West Asia Service Medal Regulations and make the annexed South-West Asia Service Medal Regulations, 2009 in substitution.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patent and the Great Seal of Canada to be hereunto affixed.

WITNESS:

Our Right Trusty and Well-beloved Michaëlle Jean, Chancellor and Principal Companion of Our Order of Canada, Chancellor and Commander of Our Order of Military Merit, Chancellor and Commander of Our Order of Merit of the Police Forces, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada.

AT OUR GOVERNMENT HOUSE, in Our City of Ottawa, this seventeenth day of February in the year of Our Lord two thousand and ten and in the fifty-ninth year of Our Reign.

BY HER MAJESTY’S COMMAND,

STEPHEN HARPER

PRIME MINISTER OF CANADA

SOUTH-WEST ASIA SERVICE MEDAL REGULATIONS, 2009

INTERPRETATION

1. The definitions in this section apply in these Regulations.

“Afghanistan Bar” means the bar described in section 3. (Barrette Afghanistan)

“Medal” means the South-West Asia Service Medal. (Médaille)

“Rotation Bar” means the bar described in section 4. (Barrette de rotation)

“theatre of operations” means a subset of the United States Central Command Area of Responsibility (USCENTCOM’s AOR) consisting of the political boundaries of Afghanistan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Oman, the Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea, the Suez Canal and those parts of the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea that are west of sixty-eight degrees East longitude and north of five degrees South latitude, as well as the airspace above that subset. (théâtre des opérations)

DESCRIPTION

2. (1) The Medal shall be 36 mm across and shall consist of a circular medal made of cupronickel with a claw at the top of the medal, in the form of a cluster of olive leaves, being attached to a straight, slotted bar.

(2) On the obverse of the Medal shall appear the effigy of Her Majesty the Queen of Canada who is wearing the King George IV State Diadem and facing to the sinister, circumscribed with the inscriptions “ELIZABETH II”, “DEI GRATIA REGINA” and “CANADA”, which are separated by small maple leaves.

(3) On the reverse of the Medal shall appear a representation of a hydra, which is the many-headed creature of Greek mythology that is described as a multifarious evil not to be overcome by a single effort, transfixed by a Canadian sword, and over which shall appear the Latin phrase “ADVERSUS MALUM PUGNAMUS”, which means “we are fighting evil”.

(4) The Medal shall be suspended from a ribbon, 32 mm in width, with a 12 mm white stripe in the middle flanked by 4 mm black stripes, 2 mm red stripes and 4 mm sand stripes.

3. The Afghanistan Bar to the Medal shall be made of cupronickel with raised edges and shall bear the name “AFGHANISTAN”.

4. The Rotation Bars to the Medal shall be made of cupronickel with raised edges and shall bear either one or five maple leaves.

ELIGIBILITY

5. Subject to section 8, the Medal may be awarded to any person who

(a) is a member of the Canadian Forces, a member of an allied force who has worked as an integral part of the Canadian Forces, such as exchange personnel, a Canadian citizen in the employ of Her Majesty in right of Canada or a Canadian citizen under contract with the Government of Canada; and

(b) has been deployed as part of a military mission outside Canada and participated in, or provided direct support on a full-time basis to, operations conducted in the theatre of operations against terrorism in South-West Asia for a period of at least 90 cumulative days during the period beginning on September 11, 2001 and ending on July 31, 2009, provided the service has not been recognized by another medal.

6. Subject to section 8, the Medal with the Afghanistan Bar may be awarded to any person who

(a) is a member of the Canadian Forces, a member of an allied force who has worked as an integral part of the Canadian Forces, such as exchange personnel, a Canadian citizen in the employ of Her Majesty in right of Canada or a Canadian citizen under contract with the Government of Canada; and

(b) has been deployed as part of a military mission for a period of at least 30 cumulative days in the theatre of operations during the period beginning on September 11, 2001 and ending on July 31, 2009, provided the service has not been recognized by another medal.

7. A recipient of the Medal with the Afghanistan Bar may be awarded a Rotation Bar if the person has served an additional 180 cumulative days of service after qualifying for that Medal or the last Rotation Bar that the person has earned.

8. The following do not constitute eligible service:

(a) visits and inspections for the purpose of leadership, command or familiarization;

(b) ceremonial or morale visits by civilian or military dignitaries;

(c) staff assistance visits;

(d) staff inspection visits;

(e) specialist visits for the conduct of summary, criminal or administrative investigations, courts martial, boards of inquiry, trial evaluations, academic studies, or surveys;

(f) work by embedded journalists or war artists; and

(g) any other similar activity.

9. (1) Any person who dies or is evacuated for medical reasons that are directly attributable to service is deemed to have completed the minimum service required under section 5 or 6.

(2) Any recipient of the Medal with the Afghanistan Bar who dies or is evacuated for medical reasons that are directly attributable to service shall be credited the entire period that they would have served in the theatre of operations had they completed their tour of duty for the purpose of calculating eligibility for Rotation Bars.

10. The service counted towards the Medal and Rotation Bars may not be counted towards any other Canadian or foreign service medal.

11. The service under the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s International Security Assistance Force may not be counted towards the Medal or Rotation Bars.

12. The Medal, Afghanistan Bar and Rotation Bars shall be awarded for honourable service.

AWARD

13. An award of the Medal, the Afghanistan Bar and the Rotation Bars shall be made

(a) on the recommendation of the Chief of the Defence Staff who shall make a list of all persons, military and civilian, who are eligible to be awarded the Medal, the Afghanistan Bar or the Rotation Bars and shall forward the list to the Governor General; and

(b) by an instrument signed by the Governor General.

14. The Medal, the Afghanistan Bar and the Rotation Bars may be awarded posthumously.

PRESENTATION

15. Unless the Governor General otherwise directs, the Medal, the Afghanistan Bar and the Rotation Bars shall be presented to the recipient, as arranged by the Chief of the Defence Staff.

WEARING OF MEDAL AND BARS

16. (1) The Medal shall be worn after the Somalia Medal on the left breast.

(2) One bar shall be worn centred on the ribbon that is described in subsection 2(4).

(3) One Rotation Bar bearing five maple leaves shall be worn instead of five single maple leaf Rotation Bars.

(4) When several bars have been awarded, they shall be spaced evenly on the ribbon in the order that they were earned. The Afghanistan Bar shall be worn closest to the Medal.

(5) When the undress ribbon is worn, a small silver shield bearing three maple leaves conjoined on one stem shall be worn on the ribbon to indicate the award of the Afghanistan Bar.

(6) When the undress ribbon is worn, a silver maple leaf shall be worn centred on the ribbon of the Medal to indicate the award of a Rotation Bar, a gold maple leaf shall be worn to indicate the award of a second Rotation Bar and a red maple leaf shall be worn to indicate the award of a third Rotation Bar. If more than three Rotation Bars have been awarded, the maple leaves shall be worn in combination so as to indicate the total number of Rotation Bars awarded.

(7) When multiple ribbon devices are worn on the undress ribbon, they shall be spaced evenly on the ribbon, with the shield device taking precedence over the maple leaves and being worn closest to the centre of the chest.

17. A recipient of the Medal may wear a miniature medal, which is one-half the size of the Medal, on all occasions when the wearing of miniature medals is customary.

CANCELLATION AND REINSTATEMENT

18. (1) The Governor General may, on the recommendation of the Chief of the Defence Staff,

(a) cancel or annul the award of the Medal, Afghanistan Bar or a Rotation Bar to any person; and

(b) restore the award of a Medal, Afghanistan Bar or Rotation Bar that has been cancelled or annulled.

(2) If the award of a Medal, Afghanistan Bar or Rotation Bar is cancelled or annulled, the recipient’s name shall be deleted from the register referred to in paragraph 19(c).

ADMINISTRATION

19. The Director, Honours, Chancellery of Honours shall

(a) acquire the Medals, the Afghanistan Bars and the Rotation Bars;

(b) provide the Medals, the Afghanistan Bars and the Rotation Bars to the Chief of the Defence Staff;

(c) maintain a register containing the names of recipients and any other records that relate to the award of the Medal, the Afghanistan Bar and the Rotation Bars that the Director considers necessary; and

(d) perform any other functions in respect of awards of the Medal, the Afghanistan Bar and the Rotation Bars that the Governor General may require the Director to perform.

GENERAL

20. Nothing in these Regulations limits the right of the Governor General to exercise all of the powers and authorities of Her Majesty in respect of the Medal, the Afghanistan Bar and the Rotation Bars.

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