Vol. 152, No. 4 — February 21, 2018

Registration

SI/2018-18 February 21, 2018

OTHER THAN STATUTORY AUTHORITY

Special Service Medal Bar Order “NATO–OTAN”

P.C. 2018-124 February 6, 2018

Her Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Prime Minister, pursuant to subsection 4(3) (see footnote a) and paragraph 5(b) (see footnote b) of the Special Service Medal Regulations (see footnote c),

• (a) revokes Order in Council P.C. 1995-2005 of 28 November, 1995 (see footnote d);
• (b) revokes Order in Council P.C. 2006-810 of 29 August, 2006 (see footnote e);
• (c) determines as special service any service that meets the following conditions:
  • (i) the service
    • (A) is approved service, performed outside Canada, beginning on October 20, 2004 and still continuing as part of, or in direct support of, a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) operation or mission, or
    • (B) is performed in the context of a deployment, posting or tasking within the NATO’s area of responsibility, described as the territory of any of the Parties in Europe and North America, on the Algerian Departments of France, on the territory of Turkey and on the islands under the jurisdiction of any of the Parties in the North Atlantic area north of the Tropic of Cancer, or with forces deployed on vessels or aircraft of any of the Parties, when in or over those territories or any other area in Europe in which occupation forces of any Parties were stationed, or the Mediterranean Sea or the North Atlantic area north of the Tropic of Cancer, since its beginning on January 1, 1951 and ending
      • (I) on October 19, 2004, or
      • (II) at the end of the deployment, posting or tasking if the deployment, posting or tasking was ongoing on October 19, 2004,
  • (ii) the service is honourable and consists of either
    • (A) a minimum of 45 days of the service referred to in clause (i)(A),
    • (B) a minimum of 180 days of the service referred to in clause (i)(B), or
    • (C) in the case where some of the days of service are referred to in clause (i)(A) but without meeting the minimum referred to in clause (A) and other days of service are referred to in clause (i)(B) but without meeting the minimum referred to in clause (B), the sum of those days of service if that sum is at least 45 days, and
  • (iii) the days of service referred to in subparagraph (ii) are not counted towards any other Canadian or foreign service medal; and
• (d) specifies that the Bar that is awarded with the Special Service Medal, representing the special service referred to in paragraph (c), is to bear the NATO Star flanked by the words “NATO–OTAN”.

• Footnote a
  P.C. 1999-1741 of October 1, 1999
• Footnote b
  P.C. 1999-1741 of October 1, 1999
• Footnote c
  Made by Letters Patent on December 1, 1992
• Footnote d
  SI/95-126
• Footnote e
  SI/2006-111