Section 11: Loss of annual allowance of pension on conviction

If any person to whom an annual allowance or pension has been granted under this Act is convicted before any court in the Federation of Nigeria and sentenced to death, penal servitude, or to any form of imprisonment with hard labour for a period of not less than three months such annual allowance of pension shall cease from the date of conviction:
Provided that-(a) if the conviction is before a Customary or Area court in Nigeria, such annual allowance shall not cease unless the offence for which the sentence was imposed is an offence, which, if committed within Lagos would be punishable by the general criminal law of Lagos with death or imprisonment;
(b) where an annual allowance or pension has ceased under this section, the Minister on the recommendation of the Fire Commissioner may direct all or any part of the money, to which the person to whom such conviction relates would have been entitled by way of annual allowance or pension, to be paid to or applied for the maintenance and personal support and benefit of all or any, to the exclusion of the other or others, of the following persons, namely, any wife, child or children of such person, in such proportion and manner as the Minister on the recommendation of the Fire Commissioner thinks proper and such money shall be paid or applied accordingly;
(c) where an annual allowance or pension has ceased under this section the Minister on the recommendation of the Fire Commissioner may, on the expiration of a sentence of penal servitude or imprisonment or in the case of a sentence of death on the expiration of any sentence of penal servitude or imprisonment substituted therefore, direct that the annual allowance or pension or any part thereof be restored to the person to whom the conviction relates;
(d) if after conviction a person whose annual allowance or pension has ceased under this section is granted a free pardon, such annual allowance or pension shall be restored with effect from the date of conviction; but in determining whether arrears of such allowance of pension are payable to such person and in computing the amount thereof, account shall be taken of all moneys paid or applied under the provisions of paragraph (b) or (c) of this subsection.