Section 57
Appropriation of portion of pay or salary to creditors
Where the bankrupt is an officer of the Armed Forces or a public officer or otherwise employed or engaged in the civil service of any government in Malaysia the Director General of
Insolvency shall receive for distribution amongst the creditors so much of the bankrupt’s pay or salary as the court, on the application of the Director General of Insolvency, directs.
(2)
(Repealed by Act A364).
(3)
Where a bankrupt is in the receipt of a salary or income other than as aforesaid, or is entitled to any half-pay or pension or compensation granted by any Government of Malaysia the court, on the application of the Director General of Insolvency, shall, subject to any written law for the time being regulating the
Act 360
grant and payment of pensions, from time to time make such order as it thinks just for the payment of the salary, income, half-pay, pension or compensation or of any part thereof to the Director
General of Insolvency, to be applied by him in such manner as the court directs.
(4)
Nothing in this section shall take away or abridge any power of any such Government to dismiss a bankrupt or to declare the pension, half-pay or compensation of any bankrupt to be forfeited.