Section 9

If any person to whom a pension or other allowance has been granted under this Act is sentenced to death or penal servitude or any term of imprisonment by any court of competent jurisdiction, whether in Singapore or elsewhere, for any crime or offence, the Minister may direct that the pension or allowance must forthwith cease, and the pension or allowance then ceases accordingly.

Despite subsection (1), any pension or allowance that has ceased by virtue of a direction under subsection (1) must be restored with retrospective effect in the case of a person who, after conviction, at any time receives a free pardon.

Where a pension or allowance ceases by virtue of a direction under subsection (1), the Minister may cause all or any part of moneys to which the person would have been entitled by way of pension or allowance to be paid to or applied for the benefit of the person’s wife, child or children, or after the expiration of the person’s sentence, also for the benefit of himself or herself, in the same manner precisely and subject to the same qualifications and restrictions as in the case of bankruptcy provided in section 8.