Singapore legislation
Section 17
Section 17
Pensions, etc., to cease on bankruptcy
(1)
A pension, gratuity or other allowance which would be granted under this Act to an officer must not be so granted if, at the date of his or her retirement from the public service, the officer has been adjudged a bankrupt or declared insolvent by judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction, whether in Singapore or elsewhere, and has not obtained his or her discharge from such adjudication or declaration.
(2)
If any person to whom a pension or other allowance has been granted under this Act is adjudicated a bankrupt or is declared insolvent by judgment of the court, whether in Singapore or elsewhere, then the pension or allowance immediately ceases.
(3)
In any case where —
by reason of bankruptcy or insolvency of an officer, a pension, gratuity or allowance is not granted; or
by reason of bankruptcy or insolvency of a pensioner, a pension or allowance ceases,the relevant Pension Authority may, from time to time, during the remainder of such person’s life, or during such shorter period or periods, either continuous or discontinuous, as the Pension Authority thinks fit, cause all or any part of the moneys to which the person would have been entitled by way of pension, gratuity or allowance, had the person not become a bankrupt or insolvent, to be paid to, or applied for the maintenance and personal support or benefit of, all or any (to the exclusion of the other or others) of the following persons in such proportions and manner as the Pension Authority thinks proper, and such moneys must be paid or applied accordingly:
such person himself or herself;
any wife, child or children of the person.
(4)
Moneys applied under subsection (3) for the discharge of the debts of the officer or pensioner referred to in that subsection must, for the purposes of that subsection, be regarded as applied for his or her benefit.
(5)
When a person to whom a pension or allowance has not been granted or whose pension or allowance has ceased under this section obtains a full and proper discharge from his or her bankruptcy or insolvency, his or her pension or allowance shall be restored to him or her with effect from the date of that discharge.