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(4) All pension benefits shall (except to the extent that
they are by law charged upon and duly paid out of some other fund) be a
charge on the Consolidated Fund.
(5) In this section "pension benefits" means any
pension, compensation, gratuity or other like allowances for persons in
respect of their service as judges or officers of the Supreme Court, or
members of the National Assembly, or public officers, or police officers, or
teachers, or for the widows, children, dependants or personal
representatives of such persons in respect of such service.
(6) References in this section to the law with respect to
pension benefits include (without prejudice to their generality)
references to the law regulating the circumstances in which such benefits
may be granted, or in which the grant of such benefits may be refused,
the law regulating the circumstances in which any such benefits that
have been granted may be withheld, reduced in amount or suspended, and
the law regulating the amount of any such benefits.
Power to
withhold
pensions.
235. (1)
discretion-
Where under any law any person or authority has a
(a)
to decide whether or not any pension benefits
shall be granted; or
to withhold, reduce in amount or suspend any
such benefits that have been granted,
(b)
those benefits shall be granted and may not be withheld, reduced in amount
or suspended unless the Public Service Commission, the Police and Prison
Services Commission, or the Teaching Service Commission, as the case
may be, concurs in the refusal to grant the benefits or, as the case may be, in
the decision to withhold them, reduce them in amount or suspend them.
(2) Where the amount of any pension benefits that may be
granted to any person is not fixed by law, the amount of the benefits to be
granted to him shall be the greatest amount for which he is eligible unless
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