Commentary on Sections Part 1 – Assignation Assignation of claims Section 7 – Claim in respect of wages or salary
42.This section prevents an individual assigning a claim to payments of wages or salary due to them, including for this purpose any associated payments such as bonus and redundancy payments.
43.This section will sit alongside other, more specific statutory provisions restricting the assignation of income, which also continue to have effect unless and until they are repealed. However, there are some limited cases where the assignation of such a claim is possible – for example, section 34 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 generally restricts the assignation of wages, but some exceptions are made to this (such as for those payable to a relevant fund under subsection (3). Those exceptions are preserved by section 7(3).