(1)Every assignment of or charge on, and every agreement to assign or charge, any pay, air-force award, grant, pension or allowance payable to any person in respect of his or any other person’s service in Her Majesty’s air forces shall be void.
(2)Save as expressly provided by this Act, no order shall be made by any court the effect of which would be to restrain any person from receiving anything which by virtue of this section he is precluded from assigning and to direct payment thereof to another person.
(3)Nothing in this section shall prejudice any enactment providing for the payment of any sum to a bankrupt’s trustee in bankruptcy for distribution among creditors.
(4)This section shall have effect in the United Kingdom and in any colony.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 203(1)(2) excluded (1.8.1996) by 1995 c. 26 ss. 166(4)(5)(a), 167(4); S.I. 1996/1675, art. 3(b)
S. 203(1)(2) excluded (1.8.1996) by S.I. 1995/3213 (N.I.22), art. 162(4)(5)(a); S.R. 1996/284, art. 3(1)(b)
S. 203(1)(2) excluded (11.11.1999 for the purpose of the exercise of any power to make regulations, otherwise 1.12.2000) by 1999 c. 30, ss. 44(1); S.I. 2000/1047, art. 2(2)(d), Sch. Pt. IV
Textual Amendments applied to the whole legislation
F1Act: the provisions of the 1955 Acts providing for findings of courts-martial to be subject to confirmation and to revision at the direction of the confirming officer cease to have effect (1.4.1997 subject to art. 3 of the commencing S.I.) by virtue of 1996 c. 46, s. 15; S.I. 1997/304, arts. 2, 3, Sch. 2