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3. The following persons are eligible for the award of the Services Long Service Medal: (a) members of the Royal Saint Lucia Police Force (b) members of the Saint Lucia Fire Service (c) members of the Prisons Service (d) members of the Saint Lucia Civil Service (e) members of the Saint Lucia Teaching Service 4. (1) The Services Long Service Medal may not be awarded to a person unless since he or she attained the age of 18 years. (a) he or she has served diligently and has been of exemplary conduct for a continuous period of 15 188 Cap. 1.01 Letters Patent Laws of Saint Lucia Revision Date: 31 Dec 2006 years in one of the capacities mentioned in regulation 3; or (b) he or she has served diligently and has been of exemplary conduct in 2 or more of those capacities for successive periods amounting in the aggregate to not less than 15. (2) A clasp to the Services Long Service Medal may be awarded after the completion of a further continuous period of service of 10 years in any of the capacities mentioned in regulation 3, and an additional clasp maybe awarded after the completion, of each further period of 5 years’ continuous service.