(1)  An employee, or the personal representative of a deceased employee, may apply to a magistrate, as prescribed, for an order directing the employer to pay to the employee or to his personal representatives, as the case requires, the full amount of any payment that has, at any time during the period of 3 years immediately preceding the date of the application, become due to the employee or to his personal representatives under this Act and the magistrate may make such an order.

(2)  The magistrate shall, as prescribed, hear and determine any application made to him pursuant to this section and the determination of the magistrate on the hearing of the application is final.

(3)  In any case where the question of a long service leave entitlement has been determined by a Commissioner under section 13 or by a Full Bench under section 14 , payment of that entitlement shall become due on the day of the determination.