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Merchant Shipping Act 1970

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11Restriction on assignment of and charge upon wages

(1)Subject to subsections (2) and (3) of this section, the following provisions shall have effect with respect to the wages due or accruing to a seaman employed in a ship registered in the United Kingdom, that is to say.—

(a)the wages shall not be subject to attachment or arrestment ;

(b)an assignment thereof before they have accrued shall not bind the seaman and the payment of the wages to the seaman shall be valid notwithstanding any previous assignment or charge; and

(c)a power of attorney or authority for the receipt of the wages shall not be irrevocable.

(2)Nothing in this section shall affect the provisions of this Act with respect to allotment notes.

(3)Nothing in this section applies to any disposition relating to the application of wages—

(a)in the payment of contributions to a fund declared by regulations made by the Board of Trade to be a fund to which this section applies ; or

(b)in the payment of contributions in respect of the membership of a body declared by regulations made by the Board of Trade to be a body to which this section applies;

or to anything done or to be done for giving effect to such a disposition.

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