Section 87
Power of court imposing fine
When under this Act any court imposes a fine or enforces the payment of any sum secured by bond, the court may, if it thinks fit, direct that the whole or any part of such fine or sum when recovered be paid to the party complaining.
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Act 265
Court order for payments due to employee 87a. (1) Where an employer has been convicted of an offence relating to the payment of wages or any other payments payable to an employee under this Act, the court before which he is convicted may order the employer to pay any payment due to the employee in relation to that offence.
(2)
Where an employer fails to comply with an order made under subsection (1), the court shall, on the application of the employee, issue a warrant to levy the employer’s property for any payments due under that subsection in the following manner:
(a)
by way of distress and sale of employer’s property in accordance with the same procedure of execution under the Rules of Court 2012 [P.U. (A) 205/2012] and this execution shall apply mutatis mutandis notwithstanding the amount in the order; or
(b)
in the same manner as a fine as provided under section 283 of the Criminal Procedure Code [Act 593].