National Honours and Awards

Introduction

Singapore National Day Awards are a means of recognising various forms of merit and service to the nation. The Order of Precedence of the Honours and Decorations is given in Annex A. Recipients of National Day Awards are encouraged to wear the insignia at national and important functions, examples of which are at Annex B. The guidelines outlined here have been designed for the wearing of insignia on civilian clothing.

•   The list of this year's National Day Awards recipients can be found here.
•   List of past award recipients from 1998 to 2007 is available in Register.



Medals

Medals should be worn to show the obverse in the front. They are to be positioned centrally on the left side of the outer garment with the lowest edge or point just above the pocket opening. If more than one medal is worn, they are shown full-faced and suspended side by side in precedence order with the highest award placed first from the right of the wearer. If more than 4 medals are worn, the highest award is shown full-faced while the others are overlapped. A Bar to any medal should be attached to the ribbon by which the medal is suspended.


Collar Pins

Recipients of an award may wear the collar pins at any time, but not when other insignia are worn. Collar Pins are normally worn by men on the left collar and by ladies on the right collar. Where someone holds more than one award, the collar pin of the most senior award should be worn.


Neckties

The specially designed neckties with the crescent moon and five stars motif could be worn on any occasion.