Insurance (Intermittent Unemployment) Act, 1942

Civil proceedings against employer.

53.—(1) Where any employer has failed or neglected to pay any weekly contributions which under this Act he is liable to pay in respect of any insured person in his employment or has failed or neglected to comply in relation to any such person with any other requirements of this Act and the regulations made thereunder and by reason thereof that person has lost in whole or in part the supplementary benefit to which he would have been entitled under this Act he shall be entitled to recover from the employer as a simple contract debt a sum equal to the amount of the supplementary benefit so lost.

(2) Proceedings may be taken under this section notwithstanding that proceedings have been taken under any other provision of this Act in respect of the same failure or neglect.