91 Inalienability of occupational pension
Pensions Act 1995 (1995 c 26) | Legislation

Assignment, forfeiture, bankruptcy etc

91  Inalienability of occupational pension

(1)     Subject to subsection (5), where a person is entitled [to a pension under an occupational pension scheme or has a right to a future pension under such a scheme]—

(a)     the entitlement or right cannot be assigned, commuted or surrendered,

(b)     the entitlement or right cannot be charged or a lien exercised in respect of it, and

(c)     no set-off can be exercised in respect of it,

and an agreement to effect any of those things is unenforceable.

(2)     Where by virtue of this section a person's entitlement [to a pension under an occupational pension scheme, or right to a future pension under such a scheme,] cannot, apart from subsection (5), be assigned, no order can be made by any court the effect of which would be that he would be restrained from receiving that pension.

(3)     . . .

(4)     Subsection (2) does not prevent the making of—

(a)     an attachment

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