An income payments order (IPO) made under section 310 of the Insolvency Act 1986 (IA 1986) allows for the court to direct the income (or a proportion of it) of the bankrupt to be paid to any appointed trustee in bankruptcy (trustee).

An IPO shall require the bankrupt or a third party to make a payment to the trustee equivalent to a payment as it claimed in the order. A third party for these purposes is usually the bankrupt’s employer.

The amount to be paid under an IPO is set on a case-by-case basis. The payments will usually continue for three years but cannot continue beyond that period and may be varied on an application to court by the trustee or the bankrupt (whether before or after the bankrupt's discharge from bankruptcy).

In Official Receiver v Baker, on appeal it was held that income received after the date of the bankruptcy order but before the making of an IPO was capable of being included in an IPO.

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