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Recovery of over-payment of bounties.
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21.—(1) Whenever any person has obtained payment of any flax bounty under this Act to which or to part of which he was not lawfully entitled, such flax bounty, or such part thereof, shall be a debt due by such person to the Minister and shall (whether criminal proceedings have or have not been taken against such person in respect thereof) be recoverable by the Minister as a civil debt in any court of competent jurisdiction.
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