56. Non-compliance with award or collective agreement.

(1) Any complaint that any term of any award or of any collective agreement which has been taken cognizance of by the Court has not been complied with may be lodged with the Court in writing by any trade union or person bound by such award or agreement.

(2) The Court may, upon receipt of the complaint -

(a) make an order directing any party -

(i) to comply with any term of the award or collective agreement; or

(ii) to cease or desist from doing any act in contravention of any term of the award or collective agreement;

(b) make such order as it deems fit to make proper rectification or restitution for any contravention of any term of such award or collective agreement; or

(c ) make such order as it considers desirable to vary or set aside upon special circumstances any term of the award or collective agreement.

(3) Any person who fails to comply with an order of the Court under subsection (2) shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding two thousand ringgit, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year, or to both, and further fine of five hundred ringgit for every day during which such offence continues.

(4) Where any sum of money is payable by any person, or, where anything, other than the payment of money is required to be done or not to be done by any person by virtue of an order made by the Court under subsection (2), and such order has not been complied with by the person to whom it is addressed, the Registrar of the Court may send a certified copy thereof to the Senior Assistant Registrar of the High Court or the Registrar of the Sessions Court having jurisdiction in the place to which the order relates or in the place where the order was made and the said Senior Assistant Registrar or Registrar, as the case may be, shall cause the said copy to be recorded and thereupon the said order shall for all purposes be enforceable as a judgement of the High Court or the Sessions Court, as the case may be, in accordance with such rules of court as may be applicable or in such manner as it may deem just or expedient:

Provided that no sale of immovable property shall, for the purposes of such enforcement, be order except by the High Court.

(5) (Deleted).