Proceedings to recover benefit lost by employer’s fault

(1) Where an employer has failed or neglected to pay any contribution which he is liable to pay in respect of or on behalf of any insured person, and by reason of such failure or neglect such person or any other person becomes disentitled to any benefit or entitled to a benefit at a lower rate, the Board may, on being satisfied that the contribution should have been paid by the employer, pay to the person concerned a benefit at the rate to which he would have been entitled if the failure or neglect had not occurred, and the Board shall be entitled to recover summarily in a court of summary jurisdiction from the employer 54 as a civil debt a sum equal to the amount of the sum so paid irrespective of the amount. (2) Proceedings may be taken under this section notwithstanding that proceedings before a court have been taken under any other provision of this Act in respect of the same failure or neglect.