56Pension to cease in certain cases

56 Pension to cease in certain cases

56.1 If a person in receipt of a pension under this Part:

 (a) becomes bankrupt or, without the consent in writing of the Council, assigns or charges, or attempts to assign or charge, his or her interest, or any part of his or her interest, in the pension or does or suffers anything to be done by which his or her interest in the pension, or any part of that interest would or might, through his or her act or default or by operation or process of law, become vested in, or payable to, any other person; or

 (b) is, in the opinion of the Council, incapable of managing his or her own affairs,

the pension ceases to be payable to the person.

56.2 When a pension ceases to be payable to or in respect of a person by virtue of subsection 56.1, the Council may, in its discretion, authorise the payment from time to time to the person, or to a dependant of the person, of such sums of money as the Council determines.

56.3 The total amount of any sums paid under subsection 56.2 in any year must not exceed the amount of pension that would have been payable to the person in that year if he or she had been in receipt of pension at the rate per annum at which pension was being paid to that person at the date on which pension ceased to be payable to that person.

56.4 When a person referred to in subsection 56.1 dies leaving a widow, widower or child, benefits are payable under this Statute to, or in respect of, the widow, widower or child, as the case may be, as if this section had not applied to the person.