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There are four special procedures:
- Recommendations to confer honours on former ministers
and former junior ministers are made by the prime minister. No advice
is sought. The prime minister sends a recommendation for conferral of
an honour to Her Majesty the Queen.
- Recommendations to confer an honour on former ministers
and junior ministers of the Netherlands Antilles or former ministers of
Aruba are made by the minister for the Interior and Kingdom Relations,
following consultation with the prime ministers of the relevant
territories. No advice is sought here either.
- The decision to confer an honour on a member of
the Royal Family or a foreign head of state is made by Her Majesty the
Queen. The prime minister is responsible for the conferral of a
decoration on a member of the Royal Family. The minister of Foreign
Affairs is responsible for decorating a foreign head of state.
- Honours are conferred on persons involved as part of
state visits. These conferrals have a ceremonial function. The advice
of the Civil Honours Advisory Comission is first sought on these
conferrals, except when it concerns a foreign head of state. The
Commission checks whether the conferral of honours will take place on a
reciprocal basis, the so-called reciprocity principle. In the end, it
is the minister of Foreign Affairs who decides on the recommendation.
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