Insignia Ordinance - Order of Australia - As made (Cth)

BILL HAYDEN

Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia and Chancellor of the Order of Australia

Dated 4th November 1993

I, WILLIAM GEORGE HAYDEN, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting under section 30 of the Constitution of the Order of Australia, revoke the Insignia Ordinance made on 1 February 1977 and make the following Ordinance.

Sealed with the Seal of the Order of Australia in the presence of:

D. STURKEY

Douglas Sturkey Secretary of the Order of Australia Insignia Ordinance

Short Title

1. This ordinance may be cited as the Insignia Ordinance.

Interpretation

2. (1) In this Ordinance, "Constitution" means then Constitution of the Order of Australia.

(2) Unless the contrary intention appears, an expression used in the Constitution and in this Ordinance has the same meaning in this Ordinance as in the Constitution.

Definition of "member"

(3) A "member of the Order of Australia" means any person who has received the approval of The Sovereign to wear the Insignia of Knight or Dame, Companion, Officer, or Member or the Medal of the Order of Australia.

(4) A reference in this Ordinance to the Ribbon of the Order in relation to Insignia of a member of the Order is: (a) in the case of a member of the Order in the General Division — a reference to the Ribbon of the Order in the General Division, and (b) in the case of a member of the Order in the Military Division — a reference to the Ribbon of the Order in the Military Division.

Emblem of the Order

3. The Emblem of the Order is a single flower of mimosa, represented in the form of a convex disc.

Ribbon of the Order

4. (1) Ribbons of the Order in the General Division are of moire Royal blue material in three sizes, being 38 millimetres, 32 millimetres and 16 millimetres wide; the widest Ribbon having a central band 12 millimetres wide of scattered golden mimosa blossoms of various sizes, the other widths having the same pattern in proportion.