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Failure to pay sum due.
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8.—(1) If an employer, in a case in which a sum is due by him under this Act to an employee, fails to pay the sum—
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(a) the employer shall be guilty of an offence,
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(b) the employee may (whether or not proceedings have been taken for the offence) recover the sum as a simple contract debt in any court of competent jurisdiction.
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(2) The court by which an employer is convicted of an offence under this Act may order him, if the offence relates to an employee to whom he is liable for a sum under this Act, to pay the sum to the employee.
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(3) Proceedings pursuant to subsection (1) (b) may be instituted and maintained on behalf of the employee by his trade union.
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