Special Service Medal Bar Order “DISTANTIA”: SI/2024-56

Canada Gazette, Part II, Volume 158, Number 24

Registration
SI/2024-56 November 20, 2024

SPECIAL SERVICE MEDAL REGULATIONS

Special Service Medal Bar Order “DISTANTIA”

P.C. 2024-1174 November 5, 2024

Her Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Prime Minister, under subsection 4(3)^{footnote a} and section 5^{footnote a} of the Special Service Medal Regulations^{footnote b},

• (a) determines as special service, within the meaning of those Regulations, service which meets the following conditions:
  • (i) it is either 180 consecutive days or an aggregate of 270 days, 60 days of which are consecutive, of honourable service beginning on or after the day on which this Order comes into force, performed either in Canada or outside of Canada other than in a theatre of operations, for the specific purpose of remotely participating, on a full-time basis, in approved operations through either the personal use of weapons systems or the delivery of targeted effects, which use or delivery is enabled by technology and has a tangible effect, or the potential for such an effect, in the theatre of operations, and
  • (ii) the service is not counted as service towards any other Canadian or foreign service medal; and
• (b) specifies that the Bar that is awarded with the Special Service Medal, representing the special service referred to in paragraph (a), is to bear the word “DISTANTIA”.