S.L. 111.1 · Personal Injuries Of Civilians Scheme (S.L. 111.1)
S.L. 111.1 Art. 37Forfeiture of pensions and restoration of forfeited pension, etc.
PART IV
(1) Where a person in respect of whom an injury allowance, pension or allowance may be or has been awarded under this Scheme -
(a) is, in pursuance of a sentence or order of a court upon his being found guilty of an offence, serving a term of imprisonment or detained in a reformatory or approved school; or
(b) is an enemy alien who, as such, has been interned or detained or has been expelled from these Islands or the United Kingdom; or
(c) is a person who, under the Aliens Restriction Act, 1914, or under the Prevention of Violence (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1939, or under any regulations made under the Emergency Powers (Defence) Acts, 1939 and 1940, or under the Civil Authorities (Special Powers) Acts (Northern Ireland), 1922 and 1923, is detained, or has been deported from, required to leave or prohibited from entering the United Kingdom, Great Britain or Northern Ireland, or is detained, or has been deported from, required to leave, or prohibited from entering these Islands under any similar enactment in force in Malta, the Committee may withhold the award of that injury allowance, pension or allowance, or, if that injury allowance, pension or allowance has been awarded and is not already forfeited, direct that that injury allowance, pension or allowance shall be forfeited as from such date as the Committee may think fit.
(2) Where a person to or in respect of whom a pension or allowance may be or has been awarded under Part III of this Scheme in respect of an injury sustained by a person who has died is, in the opinion of the Committee, unworthy of a grant from public funds, the Committee may withhold the award of that pension or allowance or direct that it shall be forfeited as from such date as the Committee may think fit.
(3) The Committee may, in its discretion and upon such terms and as from such date as it thinks fit, restore, either in whole or in part, any injury allowance, pension or allowance forfeited under this article.