Section 8: Additional provision in special cases

8. Additional provision in special cases Where any person is absent from Mauritius, or is imprisoned or detained in legal custody, and immediately before such absence, imprisonment or detention was entitled to an allowance, sums equivalent to the allowance may, at the absolute discretion of the benefit authority, be paid to some other person in Mauritius for the benefit of the children of such person’s family in Mauritius, and any such sums shall be paid and accounted for as if they were sums by way of allowances under this Act. F3 – 3 [Issue 1]