Connaught Rangers (Pensions) Act, 1936

Prohibition of assignment, etc., of pensions and gratuities and dependants' allowances.

17.—(1) Every assignment of and every charge on and every agreement to assign or charge any pension, gratuity, or dependant's allowance under this Act shall, except so far as the same is authorised by an Act for the time being in force, be null and void.

(2) No pension, gratuity, or dependant's allowance under this Act shall be capable of being taken in execution or otherwise alienated by process of law for the payment of any debts or liabilities of the person to whom such pension, gratuity, or dependant's allowance is granted.

(3) Nothing in this section shall prevent the deduction from any pension, gratuity, or dependant's allowance payable under this Act of any moneys which may be due and owing to any Minister, head of a Department of State, or any public department of the Government of Saorstát Eireann by the person to whom such pension, gratuity, or dependant's allowance is payable.