Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972
8.Recovery of gratuity.-
If the amount of gratuity payable under this Act is not paid by
the employer, within the prescribed time, to the person entitled thereto, the
controlling authority shall, on an application made to it in this behalf by the
aggrieved person, issue a certificate for that amount to the Collector, who
shall recover the same, together with compound interest thereon at the rate of
nine per cent per annum, from the date of expiry of the prescribed time, as
arrears of land revenue and pay the same to the person entitled thereto.