Power of Court under payments

(1) If the employer is convicted of a contravention of section 3 of this Act or is acquitted on the ground of the special defence created by section 5 (2) of this Act, the Court may, without prejudice to its powers under section 3 (2) of this Act, order the employer to pay to the employee concerned such sums (hereinafter referred to as “arrears of remuneration”) as appear to the Court to be due to the employee having regard to the provisions of section 3 (1) of this Act. (2) In determining any sum referred to in subsection (1) of this section, no account shall be taken of any period before the period of six years immediately preceding the date on which the relevant information or complaint was laid and in any event no account shall be taken of any period before the appointed day. (3) An order under subsection (1) of this section for the payment of any arrears of remuneration to any person may be enforce by that parson against the employer in like manner as a judgment in favour of that person and, until the sum is paid, the order shall not be in derogation of any right of that person to recover remuneration by any other proceedings.