(1) Where an employer has failed to keep records under regulations made under section 14(5) or has failed to make a notification under regulations made under section 215 and an employee of the employer receives payment, due wholly or partly by reason of that failure, of disability benefit, unemployment benefit, retirement pension, invalidity pension, unemployment assistance, pre-retirement allowance or family income supplement which he was not entitled to receive in respect of any day on which he was in the employment of the said employer, such employer shall be liable to pay to the Minister on demand a sum not exceeding the amount of benefit, pension, assistance, allowance or supplement which was paid to the said employee and that sum, if not repaid by the employee, may be recovered by the Minister as a simple contract debt in any court of competent jurisdiction.
(2) It shall be presumed until the contrary is proved that any payment aforesaid was made wholly or partly by reason o