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Forfeiture of pensions and dependants' allowances.
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16.—If any person to whom a pension or dependant's allowance has been granted under this Act is, during the continuance of such pension or allowance, convicted of any crime or offence by a court of competent jurisdiction in Saorstát Eireann and sentenced by that court for that crime or offence to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any term exceeding three months or to penal servitude for any term, the following provisions shall have effect, that is to say:—
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(b) if such conviction and sentence is quashed or annulled, the forfeiture consequent on such conviction and sentence shall be deemed to have been quashed or annulled also, and such pension or dependant's allowance shall be thereupon revived and payable together with all arrears thereof accruing since the date of such conviction.
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