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Employees' Provident Fund Act (No. 15 of 1958) - Sect 17

Recovery of contributions

17.
(1) Any moneys due to the Fund shall be recoverable, as a debt due to the Crown, by an action in which proceedings may be taken by way of summary procedure. The provisions of the Civil Procedure Code relating to actions of which the procedure is summary shall apply to an action under this section, and, for the purposes only of the application of such provisions to such action, section 8 of that Code shall have effect as if, for the words " by this Ordinance" occurring in that section, there were substituted the words " by this Ordinance or by any other written law ".
(2) Proceedings for the recovery of any moneys due to the Fund may be instituted by the Commissioner or any officer authorized in that behalf by him, and the Commissioner or such officer may, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any other written law, conduct such proceedings.
(3) The provisions of the Prescription Ordinance shall not apply to the recovery of any sums payable as contributions or surcharges under this Act.


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