(1) Before a sailor can be considered for the award of a Good Conduct Badge, he must have completed the following periods of qualifying service: - For 1st Good Conduct Badge .. .. 4 years For 2nd Good Conduct Badge .. .. 8 years For 3rd Good Conduct Badge .. .. 12 years.
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(2) The whole service in the Indian Navy y, including mobilized service of a reservist, shall be reckoned as qualifying service, with the following exceptions: -
(a) Time served before attaining the age of 17 years;
(b) Time for which pay is not allowed, for example, time lost through imprisonment, detention, cells, custody of civil power, waiting trial for desertion or time during which a man has been out of the Service for any cause;
(c) Time prior to desertion unless the notation “R” (Run) or “R. Q.” (Run Query) is removed;
(d) Fleet reserve service including time under training as a Reservist;
(e) Time before absence from the Service for the period referred to in Regulation 298 (1) and 300 (1) (a).
Explanation. – In reckoning service towards badges, care shall be taken that the same period of time forfeited is not deducted more than once; for example, under “cells” and second class for conduct