Section 21
Pension, etc., to cease on conviction
Subject to subsection (2), where any person to whom a pension or other benefit has been granted under this Act is sentenced to death or to any term of imprisonment by a Court, such pension or other benefit shall cease forthwith.
(2)
The pension or other benefit under subsection (1) shall be restored with retrospective effect in the case of a person who after conviction receives a free pardon.
(3)
Where a pension or other benefit ceases under subsection (1), the Yang di-Pertuan Agong may grant an alimentary allowance equivalent to the whole or any part of such moneys to which the pensioner would have been entitled by way of pension or other benefit as he thinks proper to the pensioner’s wife or children for
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their maintenance and benefit and, after the expiration of his sentence, to such pensioner himself.