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Section 107 in The Naval Ceremonial, Conditions Of Service And Miscellaneous Regulations, 1964

107. Salutes and Marks of Respect in Boats.

(1)The following rules for the paying and returning of marks of respect in boats shall be observed:
(a)The officer in charge of the boat or the coxswain shall always salute, except where the design of the boat is such that the officer in charge or the coxswain is in an inconspicuous position, in which case one of the members of the boat's crew shall be detailed to salute.
(b)The senior of the officers in the boat shall also salute whenever this is practicable.
(c)The salute shall be acknowledged by the officer being saluted, unless he details an officer to do so. If no officer is available, the coxswain of the boat may be detailed to answer the salute.
(d)Where boats carrying officers of equal rank pass each other, no exchange of salutes shall take place.
(2)In addition to saluting, special marks of respect shall be paid to Royal and important personages and senior officers, as given in the table in cl. 6.
(3)All officers shall be saluted by the officer incharge of the boat or coxswain when getting into or leaving the boat.
(4)In private boats, officers and men should pay and return salutes as dictated by courtesy, but only the officer or the sailor in most convenient position should salute.
(5)The Officer of the Guard with his pendant flying shall be saluted by all officers of junior rank, as in the case of Captain with his pendant flying. The Officer of the Guard will salute all officers senior to himself.
(6)Table of Special Marks of Respect in Boats.
Personagesor occasion Boatwhen passing Boatalongside Landing Place, Accommodation Leader or made fast
  PowerBoat Boatunder Oars Boatunder Sail  
1 2 3 4 5
ThePresident, a President of a Republic, Royal Personages,Ambassadors, Governors-General and their equivalents in othercountries.       Crewcalled to attentionExplanation: (i) In decked-in-power boats, members of the crew who are notengaged in keeping the boat alongside and all passengers standto attention and face in the direction of the personage orofficer being saluted.
(2)The Chief of the Naval Staff, Commander-in-Chief, Flag officersand Commodores, and their equivalents in the other services andnations, when flying the appropriate flag of their command intheir barges or boats. StopEngines TossOars Letfly sheets (ii)In open boats of all types members of the crew who are notengaged in keeping the boat alongside and all passengers situp-right and squarely on the thwarts or benches.
(3)A boat containing a Service Funeral Party with the body.       (iii)Boatkeepers sit at attention, and the senior sailor in the boatsalutes.
(4)During the hoisting of colours, and the lowering of colours atsunset, and during the firing of gun salutes.        
(5)The Chief of the Naval Staff, Commanders-in-Chief and FlagOfficers not flying a flag, Commodores not flying a BroadPendant, officers of equivalent rank of other services and othernations, when not flying a flag, non-executive officers ofRear-Admiral's rank and above.        
Note.- In the Indian Navy, the Red and Blue Discs referred to insub-regulation (5) of Regulation 68 will be shown. Reducespeed to slow Layon oars Letfly sheets. Crewcalled to attention.
(6)The Chief of the Naval Staff, Commanders-in-Chief, FlagOfficers, Commodores and officers of equivalent rank in uniformor plain clothes when showing the White Disc described insub-regulation (5) of Regulation 68.        
(7)Any Indian or Foreign Naval Officer flying a pendant.        
Explanation. -(i) Marks of respect are paid by all boats on occasions (3) and (4) above. Otherwise only by boats in which officers junior to the personage or officer passing are passengers.
(ii)In boats fitted with crutches, oars shall never be tossed, but the salutes given by laying on oars.
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