8C. Recovery Officer to whom certificate is to be
forwarded
(1) The authorised officer may forward the certificate referred to in section 8B to the
Recovery Officer within whose jurisdiction the employer
(a) carries on his business or profession or within whose jurisdiction the principal place
of his establishment is situate; or
(b) resides or any movable or immovable property of the establishment or the employer is
situate.
(2) Where an establishment or the employer has property within the jurisdiction of more
than one Recovery Officers and the Recovery Officer to whom a certificate is sent by the
authorised officer
(a) is not able to recover the entire amount by the sale of the property movable or
immovable within his jurisdiction; or
(b) is of the opinion that for the purpose of expediting or securing the recovery of the
whole or any part of the amount it is necessary so to do he may send the certificate or
where only a part of the amount is to be recovered a copy of the certificate certified in
the prescribed manner and specifying the amount to be recovered to the Recovery Officer
within whose jurisdiction the establishment or the employer has property or the employer
resides the thereupon that Recovery Officer shall also proceed to recover the amount due
under this section as if the certificate or the copy thereof had been the certificate sent
to him by the authorised officer.