s 14 Payment by Government
14.—(1) Where —(a) any outstanding premium is due from any person under this Act other than as a defaulter’s agent under section 12 or 13; (b) an amount is or would be payable by the Government to the person by or under any written law, contract or scheme —(i) on or not more than 90 days after the date on which the public officer in paragraph (c) receives the notice in paragraph (c); or (ii) at any time on or after the date on which the public officer in paragraph (c) receives the notice in paragraph (c), if the amount is earnings (as defined in section 12(9)) payable to the person by the Government as a principal and not as an agent; and (c) before the amount mentioned in paragraph (b) is paid to the person, the recovery body serves a notice on any public officer by whom the payment is to be made that the outstanding premium mentioned in paragraph (a) is due from the person, then the public officer is, despite that or any other written law, contract or scheme, entitled to pay the whole or any part of the amount mentioned in paragraph (b) towards the whole or any part of the outstanding premium mentioned in paragraph (a). (2) If a public officer makes a payment under subsection (1) towards the outstanding premium mentioned in subsection (1)(a) —(a) the amount of the outstanding premium is to be reduced by the amount of that payment; and (b) that payment is deemed to have been made to the person in accordance with the law, contract or scheme mentioned in subsection (1)(b).