Civil proceedings to recover sums due

(1) All sums due to the Fund under this Act shall be recoverable as debts due to the Fund and without prejudice to any other remedy may be recovered summarily as a civil debt and any sum due by way of contribution shall from the date on which the said sum fell due, bear interest at the rate of ten per centum per annum or such other rate as may be prescribed. (2) Proceedings for the summary recovery of sums due to the Fund may, notwithstanding anything in any enactment to the contrary, be brought at any time within six years from the time when the matter complained of arose. (3) Proceedings for the summary recovery as civil debts of sums due to the Fund may be instituted by an officer of the Board authorised in that behalf by special or general directions of the Chief Executive Officer.