57Benefits are not assignable etc

57 Benefits are not assignable etc

57 Benefits are not assignable etc

(1) Benefits under this Act and other payments from the Fund shall not be in any way assigned or charged or passed by operation of law to any person other than the person who is entitled thereto under this Act.

(2) Nothing in this section prevents the Board from making, at the request of a person to whom an amount by way of a benefit is payable, a payment of the whole or a part of the amount on behalf of the person.

(3) Any payment made under subsection (2) shall be deemed to have been made to the person entitled to the benefit.

s 57: Am 1973 No 43, Sch 1; 1987 No 217, Sch 1 (5).