Queen's Regulations

Paulson: Well, the National Defense Act has a Queen’s Regulations and Orders, which is like a code of justice for the military.

This may, in part, be a legacy of his 20 years in the armed forces, when he was prevented by Queen's Regulations from publicly expressing political views, even though he had been a member of the Labour Party since his teens.

I have before me "The Queen's Regulations and Orders for the Army," issued by the Commander-in-chief, in which flags which can be flown only on shore are confounded with flags which can be flown nowhere but on board ship.

Wherever the sovereign is residing the Royal Standard is hoisted; and on royal anniversaries and state occasions it is hoisted at certain fortresses or stations—home and foreign—specified in the Queen's Regulations.

This little man was what is called a sea-lawyer—my naval readers well know what I mean; he knew all the Admiralty Instructions, was an amateur engineer, only needed the title of M.D. to make him a doctor, could quibble and quirk, and in fact could prove by the Queen’s Regulations that your soul, to say nothing of your body, wasn’t your own; that you were a slave, and he lord—god of all he surveyed.