Power to Reduce Pensions, etc

(1) The appropriate authority may withhold or reduce any pension or grant awarded under these Regulations- (a) if satisfied that it was obtained by the wilful suppression of material facts or granted in ignorance of facts which, had they been known at the time of the grant, would have justified the reduction or withholding thereof; or (b) if the person to, or in respect of, whom such pension or grant is awarded is sentenced to death or to any term of imprisonment, by any court of competent jurisdiction, whether in Belize or elsewhere, for any crime or offence, or who is, in the opinion of the appropriate authority, unworthy of a grant from public funds. (2) Where any pension or other grant has been withheld or reduced under the provisions of these Regulations, the appropriate authority may, at any time in any case in which it is considered equitable to do so, grant or restore the whole pension or grant or a portion thereof.