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Assignment
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14. The following provisions shall have effect with respect to every superannuation allowance, allowance, and gratuity (in this section referred to as a “grant”) payable by the visiting committee of an asylum to any person (in this section referred to as the “pensioner”):—
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(1) Every assignment of and charge on a grant, and every agreement to assign or charge a grant, shall, except so far as made for the benefit of the family of the pensioner, be void, and on the bankruptcy of the pensioner the grant shall not pass to any trustee or other person acting on behalf of the creditors:
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(2) Where any parochial relief is given to a pensioner or to anyone whom he is liable to maintain, the visiting committee of an asylum may pay the whole or any part of the grant to the guardians or other authority giving the relief, and the same, when so paid, may be applied in repayment of any sums expended in such relief, and, subject thereto, shall be paid or applied by the guardians or other authority to or for the benefit of the pensioner:
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(3) If the pensioner neglects to maintain any person whom he is liable to maintain, the visiting committee of an asylum may in their discretion pay or apply the whole or any part of the grant to or for the benefit of that person:
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(4) If the pensioner appears to the visiting committee of an asylum to be insane or otherwise incapacitated to act, the visiting committee of the asylum may pay so much of the grant as the visiting committee of the asylum think fit to the institution or person having the care of the pensioner, and may pay the surplus (if any) or such part thereof as the visiting committee think fit for or towards the maintenance and benefit of the wife or relatives of the pensioner:
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(5) On the death of a pensioner to whom a sum not exceeding one hundred pounds is due on account of a grant, then, if the visiting committee of the asylum so direct, probate or other proof of the title of the personal representative of the deceased may be dispensed with, and the sum may be paid or distributed to or among the persons appearing to the visiting committee of the asylum to be beneficially entitled to the personal estate of the deceased pensioner, or to or among any one or more of those persons, or, in case of the illegitimacy of the deceased pensioner, to or among such persons as the visiting committee of the asylum may think fit, and the visiting committee of the asylum, and any officer of the visiting committee making the payment, shall be discharged from all liability in respect of any such payment or distribution:
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(6) Any sum payable to a minor on account of a grant may be paid either to the minor or to such person and on such conditions for the benefit of the minor as to the visiting committee of the asylum seems expedient:
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(7) Where a payment is made to any person by the visiting committee of an asylum in pursuance of this section, the receipt of that person shall be a good discharge for the sum so paid:
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(8) The visiting committee of an asylum may, with the consent of the Secretary of State, make rules with respect to declarations to be taken for any purpose relating to grants payable by them, and, while any such rules so made are in force, a person shall not be entitled to receive any sums in respect of a grant payable by such visiting committee until any declaration required by those rules has been made. Any person who makes a wilful misstatement of material fact in any such declaration shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds or to imprisonment with or without hard labour not exceeding three calendar months.
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