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Forfeiture of pensions and allowances.
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11.—(1) If any officer or soldier to whom a wound pension has been granted under this Act is, during the continuance of such pension, convicted of any crime or offence by a Court of competent jurisdiction in Saorstát Eireann and is 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 wound pension granted to such officer or soldier, and also any further pension granted to him on account of his being a married man, shall be forfeited as from the date of such conviction.
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(2) If any person to whom an allowance has been granted under this Act is, during the continuance of such allowance, convicted of any crime or offence by a Court of competent jurisdiction in Saorstát Eireann and is sentenced by that Court for that crime or offence to imprisonment with or without hard labour for any term exceeding one month or to penal servitude for any term, the allowance granted to such person shall be forfeited as from the date of such conviction.
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(4) If any person to whom any pension, allowance or continuing gratuity has been granted under this Act is guilty of any disgraceful conduct during the continuance of such pension, allowance or gratuity, the Minister may if in his opinion the circumstances of the case warrant his so doing, terminate the pension, allowance or gratuity granted to such person.
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