Section 55, The Bankruptcy Act, 2009

(1) Where a bankrupt is an officer or clerk or otherwiseemployed or engaged in the public service of the Government, the trustee shall receive for distribution among the creditors so much of the bankrupt’s pay or salary as the court, on the application of the trustee, may direct. (2) Before making any order under this section, the court shall communicate with the Accountant-General or any other person authorised to pay salaries of public officers as to the amount, time and manner of the payment to the trustee, and shall obtain the written consent of the Accountant–General or such other person to the terms of the payment. (3) Where a bankrupt is in receipt of salary or income other than as mentioned in subsection (1), or is entitled to any halfpay or pension, the court, on the application of the trustee, shall from time to time make such order as it thinks just for the payment of the salary, income, half-pay or pension or of any part of it, to the trustee to be applied by him in such manner as the court may direct. (4) Nothing in this section shall take away or abridge any power to dismiss a bankrupt or pursuant to any enactment, to declare the pay, pension, allowance, compensation, salary or income of any bankrupt to be forfeited.