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 18: Tea or tea seed for export to be covered by licence or permit.
    (1) No consignment of tea or tea seed shall be shipped or waterborne to be shipped for export or shall be exported until the owner has delivered to the Customs-collector a valid export licence or special export licence or a valid permit issued by or on behalf of the Board or the Central Government, as the case may be, covering the quantity to be shipped.
     (2) No consignment of tea or tea seed shall be shipped or waterborne to be shipped for carriage (or shall be taken by land or air) to any of the 1* * * Portuguese Settlements bounded by India until the owner has delivered to the Customs-collector a permit issued by or on behalf of the Board covering the quantity to be shipped.
     (3) No permit for the passage of any tea or tea seed by land into any of the 1* * * Portuguese Settlement bounded by India shall be granted under sub-section (1) of section 5 of the Land Customs Act, 1924 (19 of 1924), unless the application for such permit is accompanied by a permit granted in this behalf by the Board covering the quantity to be passed.
Notes:
1. The words "French or" omitted by the A.O. (No. 3), 1956 (w.e.f. 1-11-1956).
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