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ELIZABETH R

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

ELIZABETH THE SECOND, by the Grace of God Queen of Australia and Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth:

    TO ALL to whom these Presents shall come,

    GREETING:

WHEREAS by Letters Patent passed under the Great Seal of Australia, bearing date at St. James's the fourteenth day of February 1975, We did establish a society of honour known as the 'Order of Australia' and made other provision with respect to membership and the Constitution of the Order:

AND WHEREAS We are minded to establish a new category of membership and a new award within the Order and to make further and other provision with respect to eligibility, membership and the Constitution of the Order:

KNOW YOU that We, by these Presents, declare Our pleasure that the above-mentioned Letters Patent of the fourteenth day of February 1975 be amended, but without prejudice to anything lawfully done thereunder, as set out in the Schedule:

AND WE DO ordain that appointments to a category in the Civil Division of the Order made before the date of these Our Letters Patent shall be treated as having been made to that category in the General Division of the Order.

IN WITNESS whereof We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patent.

                                 GIVEN under the Great Seal of Australia at Our Court at St. James's on 24 May 1976

                                 By Her Majesty's Command,

MALCOLM FRASER

Prime Minister
Schedule

Amendments of the Constitution of the Order of Australia

1. Section 1 is amended—
 (a) by omitting 'Civil' (wherever occurring) and substituting 'General';

 (b) by omitting sub-section (3) and substituting the following sub­section:

          '(3) Appointments to the Order shall be as Knight or Dame, Companion, Officer, or Member.'; and
 (c) by adding at the end of the following sub-section:

          '(5) There shall be a Medal of the Order called the "Medal of the Order of Australia".'.

2. Section 2 is revoked and the following section substituted:

          '2. The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia shall be the Chancellor of the Order and the Principal Knight or Dame, as the case may be, in the General Division.'.

3. Section 4 is amended—
         (a) by omitting from paragraph (b) of sub-section (1) 'Executive Council' and substituting 'Federal Executive Council';
         (b) by omitting from paragraph (c) of sub-section (1) 'Department of the Special Minister of State', and substituting 'to the Department of Administrative Services';
         (c) by omitting from paragraph (e) of that sub-section 'Australia' and substituting 'the Commonwealth of Australia'; and
         (d) by omitting from sub-section (2) 'his'.

4. Section 5 is amended—
         (a) by adding after 'Order' in paragraph (a) 'and for the award of the 'Medal of the Order'; and
         (b)