Section 16
Payment of compensation where an employer has failed to insure. Repealed
The Personal Injuries (Compensation Insurance) Act, 1963
About this Act
An Act to impose on employers a liability to pay compensation to workmen sustaining personal injuries and to provide for the insurance of employers against such liability.
Where an employer has
failed to take out a policy of insurance as required by sub-section (1) of section 9, or having taken out a
policy of insurance as required by that sub-section, has failed to make the payments by way of premium
thereon which are subsequently due from him in accordance with the provisions of the Scheme, payment
of any compensation for the payment of which he is liable under this Act may be made out of the Fund,
and the sum so paid together with a penalty of such amount not exceeding the sum so paid as may be
determined by an officer authorised in this behalf by the Central Government shall be recoverable from
the employer as an arrear of land-revenue for payment into the Fund.