Act Number: 8

Act Name: The Employees Compensation Act, 1923

Year: 1923

Enactment Date: 1923-03-05

Long Title: An Act to provide for the payment by certain classes of employers to their workmen of compensation for injury by accident.

Ministry: Ministry of Labour and Employment

Department:

Section 9: Compensation not to be assigned, attached or charged.
    Save as provided by this Act, no lump sum or half-monthly payment payable under this Act shall in any way be capable of being assigned or charged or be liable to attachment or pass to any person other than the 1[employee] by operation of law, nor shall any- claim be set off against the same.
Notes:
1. Subs. by Act 45 of 2009, s. 5, for "workman" (w.e.f. 18-1-2010).
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