Section 4: Pensions, etc. may be withheld or forfeited in certain cases

(1) Where any person to or in respect of whom a pension, gratuity or allowance may be or has been awarded under this Act (hereafter referred to as "the pensioner")- (a) is serving a term of imprisonment or detention, or is detained in an approved school or a remand home under a sentence or order of any competent court, whether within or without Uganda, for any crime or offence; (b) is deported or removed from, is required to leave or is prohibited from entering Uganda, under any law for the time being in force, or is a person whose certificate of naturalisation has been revoked; or (c) being a person to or in respect of whom an award of a pension, gratuity or allowance may be or has been made because of the death of a member of the armed forces, is in the opinion of the President unworthy of a grant from public funds, the President may withhold the pension, gratuity or allowance or, if it has been awarded, direct that it shall be forfeited as from such date, including any past date, as he or she may think fit; but the pension, gratuity or allowance shall be restored with retrospective effect in the case of a person who after conviction at any time receives a free pardon. (2) The President may, at any time, and upon such terms and as from such date, including any past date, as he or she thinks fit- (a) restore, either in whole or in part, a pension, gratuity or allowance withheld or forfeited under this section; (b) where he or she has withheld a pension, gratuity or allowance or directed that a pension, gratuity or allowance be forfeited, on any of the grounds specified in subsection (1)(a), (b) or (c), direct that for such period as he or she may think fit the whole or any part of the pension, gratuity or allowance be paid to or applied for the benefit of any wife or child of the pensioner in such manner as he or she may think proper.