25. Staff  26. Class-child ratio  (4) All pensions benefits shall (except to the extent to which under any law providing for  the funding of pensions benefits they are a charge on a fund established by that law and have  been duly paid out of that fund to the person or authority to whom payment is  due) be a charge on  the Consolidated Fund.  (5) In this section "pensions benefits" means any pensions, compensation, gratuities or  other like allowances for persons in respect of their service as public officers or as members of the  armed forces or for t he widows, children, dependants or personal representatives of such persons  in respect of such service. (6) References in this section to the law with respect to pensions benefits include (without  prejudice to their generality) references to the law regul ating the circumstances in which such  benefits may be granted or in which the grant of such benefits may be refused, the law regulating  the circumstances in which any such benefits that have been granted may be withheld, reduced in  amount or suspended and the law regulating the amount of any such benefits. (7) In this section references to service as a public officer include references to service as  a public officer of the former Protectorate of Bechuanaland. (1) Where under any law any person or authority has a discretion -  those benefits shall be granted and may not be withheld, reduced in amount or suspended unless  the appropriate Commission concurs in the refusal to grant the benefits or, as the case may be, in  the decision to withhold them, reducethem in amount or suspend them.  (2) Where the amount of any pensions benefits that may be granted to any person is not  fixed by law, the amount of the benefits to be granted to him or her shall be the greatest amount  for which he or she is eligible unlessthe appropriate Commission concurs in his or her being  granted benefits of a smaller amount. (3) The appropriate Commission shall not concur under subsection (1) or subsection (2) of  this section in action taken on the ground that any p erson who holds or has held the office of a  judge of the Court of Appeal or of the High Court or the Auditor -General or Director of  Prosecutions has been guilty of misbehaviour unless he or she has been removed from office by  reason of such misbehaviour. (4) In this section "the appropriate Commission" means -  (5) In this section "pensions benefits" meansany pensions, compensation, gratuities or  other like allowances for persons in respect of their service as public officers (including service as  public officers of the former Protectorate of Bechuanaland) or for the widows, children,  dependants or personalrepresentatives of such persons in respect of such service. All revenues or other moneys raised or received for the purposes of the Government of  Botswana (not being revenues or othe r moneys that are payable by or under any law into some  other fund established for a specific purpose or that may by or under any law be retained by the  department of Government that received them for the purposes of defraying the expenses of that  department) shall be paid into and form one Consolidated Fund. 117. Consolidated Fund Finance  (ss 117-124) CHAPTER VIII  116. Power of Commissions in relation to pensions, etc.  ( a )  to decide whether or not any pensions benefits shall be granted; or ( b )  to withhold, reduce in amount or suspend any such benefits  that have been granted,  ( a )  in the case of benefits for which any person may be eligible in respect of the service in  the public service of a person who, immediately before he or she ceased to be a public  officer, was subje ct to the disciplinary control of the Judicial Service Commission or that  have been granted in respect of such service, the Judicial Service Commission; ( b )  in any other case, the Public Service Commission. Copyright Government of Botswana