(1) Despite any provision of this Act any contribution due and owing to the Fund may be recoverable by way of a warrant as set out in Form NI/DW of Schedule 5 issued by the Director and directed to the Registrar of the High Court, setting out in such warrant or in a Schedule to the warrant, the several sums due on account of contributions and surcharge from the persons and bodies against whom the warrant is directed.
(2) Despite subsection (1) a warrant shall not be issued under this section unless the Director has given at least 30 days notice in writing in the form set out as Form DN2 in Schedule 5, to the person or persons against whom the warrant is directed.
(3) The Registrar of the High Court shall on receipt of the warrant issued under subsection (1) proceed to levy upon the goods, chattels and lands of the person or persons against whom the warrant is directed and to sell so much of such goods, chattel and land as may be required, to satisfy the sums due on account of the contributions owed to the Fund.
(4) Every sale carried out under subsection (2) shall be conducted by public auction and shall be held at a place and time to be determined by the Registrar of the High Court.
(5) A sale shall not be conducted under this section unless a notice of such sale is published in the Gazette.
(6) The proceeds of sale shall be applied to the payment of the contributions due and the expenses of the levy and sale.