PINGAT TENTERA UDARA (REMEMBRANCE ALLOWANCE) ACT 2012

This Act is deemed to have come into operation on 1 July 2011.

Interpretation

a guarantee for a loan, scholarship or grant for educational or research purposes;

a guarantee for a hire-purchase transaction of a vehicle for personal or non-business use;

a guarantee for a housing loan transaction solely for personal dwelling.

Grant of remembrance allowance

The remembrance allowance shall only be payable to a recipient who is still living at the commencement of this Act.

The remembrance allowance shall be payable in arrear no earlier than the end of each month.

Where the Decoration is conferred before the commencement of this Act, the remembrance allowance shall be paid to the recipient, in any case, commencing with the month of the commencement of this Act.

Where the Decoration is conferred on or after the commencement of this Act, the remembrance allowance shall be paid to the recipient commencing with the month in which the

Decoration is conferred on him.

Pingat Tentera Udara (Remembrance Allowance)

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Cessation of grant of remembrance allowance

if the recipient dies;

if the recipient has been convicted for any offence by a court of law in the Federation;

if the recipient has been ordered by a court of law in the

Federation in any civil action to pay an amount which exceeds two thousand ringgit; or

upon the cancellation or annulment of the conferment of the Decoration in accordance with section VI of the

Statutes of Pingat Tentera Udara.

No remembrance allowance shall be paid commencing—

If there is an appeal against such sentence or order referred to in paragraph (1)(b) or (c) by the recipient, the remembrance allowance shall not be paid commencing with the month in which such sentence or order is confirmed on such appeal.

If the recipient receives a free pardon in respect of such conviction referred to in paragraph (1)(b), or if the cancelled or annulled Decoration is restored to him, the remembrance allowance shall be restored to him commencing with the month in which the free pardon is received or the Decoration is restored.

Paragraph (1)(c) does not apply to a recipient where the court order against him was made in his capacity as a social guarantor.

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Act 745

Grant to next-of-kin of recipient where Decoration is conferred posthumously

to the spouse or spouses and children of the deceased recipient who are living on the date of the conferment of the Decoration;

if on the date of the conferment of the Decoration no spouse or child of the deceased recipient is living, to the parents or parent of the deceased recipient who are or is living on such date; or

if on the date of the conferment of the Decoration no spouse, child or parent of the deceased recipient is living, to the grandparents or grandparent of the deceased recipient who are or is living on such date.

Prime Minister to apportion amount to be paid