Article 23 Enemy subjects and persons resident in enemy occupied territory

The Minister may withhold or cancel an award of a pension, allowance, gratuity or funeral grant under this Scheme or under the Naval Order as applied by this Scheme if he is satisfied that the person to or in respect of whom that pension, allowance, gratuity or funeral grant may be or has been awarded, possessed the nationality of or resided (otherwise than by reason of compulsion) in, or in any of the possessions of, or in any territory occupied by, any state at a time when it was at war with Her Majesty.