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29/1953 - The Tea Act, 1953 ▶

Act Number: 29

Act Name: The Tea Act, 1953

Year: 1953

Enactment Date: 1953-05-28

Long Title: An Act to provide for the control by the Union of the Tea industry, including the control, in pursuance of the International Agreement now in force, of the cultivation of tea in, and of the export of tea from, India and for that purpose to establish a Tea Board and levy a duty of excise on tea produced in India.

Ministry: Ministry of Commerce and Industry

Department: Department of Commerce

Section 1: Short title, extent and commencement.

    (1) This Act may be called the Tea Act, 1953.
     (2) It extends to the whole of India:
     Provided that it shall not apply to the State of Jammu and Kashmir* except to the extent to which the provisions of this Act relate to the control of the export of tea from, and the cultivation of tea in, India.
     (3) It shall come into force on such date¹ as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.

Notes:

¹. 1st April, 1956; see notification No. S.R.O. 943, dated the 17th March 1954, Gazette of India, Extraordinary, 1954, Part II, s. 3
^*. Vide notification No. S.O. 3912(E), dated 30th October, 2019, this Act is made applicable to the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the Union territory of Ladakh.

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