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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 that amount to the Collector who recover the same, together with compound interest thereon 1[at such rate as the central Government may,