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Regulation 53 Non-assignabilityI1

England, Wales and Scotland Not yet in force

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

Every benefit to which a person is entitled under the Scheme is payable to or in trust for him.

(2)

No such benefit is assignable or chargeable with his or any other person’s debts or other liabilities.

(3)

On the bankruptcy of a person entitled to a benefit under the Scheme no part of the benefit passes to any trustee or other person acting on behalf of the creditors, except in accordance with an income payments order under section 310 or 310A of the Insolvency Act 1986f1.

Annotations

Commencement

I1

Reg. 53 in force at 1.4.2008, see reg. 1(1)

Footnotes

f1

1986 c.45; section 310 was amended by the Pensions Act 1995 (c. 26), section 122, the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 (c.30), section 18 and the Enterprise Act 2002 (c. 40), section 259 and section 310A was inserted by the Enterprise Act 2002, section 260.