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 16J: Power of Central Government to make certain declarations in relation to tea undertakings or tea units
    1[16J. Power of Central Government to make certain declarations in relation to tea undertakings or tea units.--The Central Government may, if it is satisfied in relation to a tea undertaking, tea unit or any part thereof, the management or control of which has been taken over under section 16D or under section 16E or under section 16-I, that it is necessary so do in the interests of the general public with a view to preventing fall in the volume of the production of tea, exercise in relation to such tea undertaking or tea unit or part thereof the same powers as are exercisable by it in relation to an industrial undertaking under section 18FB of the Industries (Development and Regulation) Act, 1951 (65 of 1951),, and the said section and the Third Schedule referred to therein shall apply to a tea undertaking or tea unit accordingly.]
Notes:
1. Ins. by Act 75 of 1976, s. 2 (w.e.f. 11-6-1976).
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