58Recovery of money owing to Fund

58 Recovery of money owing to Fund

58 Recovery of money owing to Fund

(1) The Board may recover any money owing to the Fund by a contributor, employer or other person, together with interest thereon as provided by subsection (3)—

(a) except in the case of unpaid contributions—as a debt in a court of competent jurisdiction,

(b) where any amount is, or becomes, payable from the Fund to the contributor, employer or other person—by deduction from that amount, or

(c) in the case of a contributor who is an employee—by deduction from the contributor’s salary in accordance with subsection (2) by such instalments, and at such times, as the Board determines.

(2) An employer shall, at the written request of the Board, make deductions from a contributor’s salary as referred to in subsection (1) (c) and pay the amount thereof to the Board, and an amount so deducted and paid shall be deemed to have been paid to the Fund by the contributor from whose salary the deduction was made.

(3) Unless, in special circumstances and in a particular case, payment thereof is waived by the Board, interest at a rate from time to time determined by the Minister on the recommendation of the Board is payable on any amount owing to the Fund calculated from the date on which the amount became due for payment until the date on which the amount is recovered under subsection (1) or is otherwise paid.

s 58: Am 1985 No 154, Sch 1 (21).