The Bo^rd may on its own authority create and abolish posts carrying a maximum salary not exceeding Rs. 500 per month and, with the previous sanction of the Central Government, other posts.
21. Allowances and remunerations.—Save with the previous sanction of the Central Government, no remuneration other than travelling allowance and halting allowance shall be paid to any member of the Board on account of his service as such.
22. Export of Tea.—Any tea estate or sub-division of a tea estate shall, on application made in this behalf in accordance with Rule 23 to the Board for allotment of an export quota, have the right to receive an export quota:
Provided that no tea estate or a sub-division of a tea estate, which ceased production for three or more consecutive seasons since the commencement of the Act, shall be eligible to get an export quota in the financial year following such three or more consecutive seasons, unless it has resumed production during the season corresponding to the financial year.
23. Application for export quota.—(1) Application for export quota for any financial year shall be made in such form, as may be specified by the Board, and shall reach the Board not later than the 1st day of February of the preceding financial year.
(2) An export quota shall not be granted, without the previous sanction of the Central Government, if the application m respect thereof is not received by the Board on or before the date specified above.
24 Crop basis.—(1) The crop basis of a tea estate or a sub-division of a tea estate for any financial year shall be the best crop in any of the four calendar years previous to the preceding financial year, due allowance being made for low producing areas: '
Provided that when a tea estate in production has no crop basis under this rule, the assessed crop of the estate for that year may be taken as its crop basis.
(2) When the area of a tea estate or a sub-division of a tea estate is reduced or increased by the transfer to or acquisition from another tea estate of land planted with tea; the crop basis of the estate or sub-division of the tea estate shall be reduced or increased by an amount representing as nearly as possible the contribution made by the area transferred or acquired to the crop basis of the estate of which it previously formed a part.
(3) Where a tea estate for which a crop basis has been determined becomes two or more separate estates, the crop of each such separate estate shall be determined so as to represent as nearly as possible the contribution made by the area comprised in it to the total crop basis of the original estate.
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25. Meaning of crop.—(1) Crop in the preceding rule shall, after the commencement of the Act, be construed as meaning the yield or production of manufactured tea, i.e. tea either black or green produced in the usual manner for sale in the market and as shown in the return in form R.T.3 submitted to the Central Excise authorities under the Central Excise Rules, 1944;
Provided that in the absence of returns in form R.T.3, the Board may determine the crop of a tea estate or sub-division of a tea estate in such manner as it thinks best.
(2) Where tea is not manufactured by tea estates concerned or where evidence of the amount manufactured is not available, the production shall be assumed to be by weight one fourth of the weight of green tea leaf produced.
26. Export quota and crop basis.—Export quota of a tea estate or sub-division of tea estate, that is, the total quantity of tea which may be exported by the owner of the tea estate or sub-division in any financial year shall be an amount bearing to the crop basis of that estate the same proportion as the export allotment 111 the financial year in question bears tu the total of the crop basis of all the tea estates and sub-divisions of tea estates in India for that year and when the export allotment is altered under proviso to section J9 of the Act, the export quota shall be deemed to be altered accordingly:
Provided that when an export quota of a tea estate or a sub-division of a tea estate has been reduced in consequence of an alteration or alterations during the financial year of the export allotment, any tea exported by the owner of a tea estate or sub-d'iyision of a tea estote in accordance with the export quota, as subsisting for the time being, which is in excess of the amount permitted tu be exported in accordance with the export quota as finally revised for the ycai, shall be excluded from the computation of the total quantity of tea which may be exported by that owner daring the financial year,
27. Inspectors and ig.ipsiors to assist In the determination of crop L i n -The Board may appoint Inspectors or Assessors for the purpjjr <.f <i^istuig in the determination of the ciop basis, and in the discharge of its other duties. The Board may pay to them such fees as it may decide ~ds well as actual t'-rn<c]ling expenses.
28. Llcenca fees.—Tbo Board shall charge and collect a licence fee for every export Jjcenre, cy-idal c :port licence, or permit issued by it at the rt'ti1 ot one rupee per ^huugniui lbs. or port thereof.
Provided thai, Hie ownfj of a tea estate or a sub-division of a tea estate to which a quota has been allotted under section 20 of the Act may make, or inc Board may require him to make, a consolidated payment of export licence fees at the rate fixed undei the rules to cover the whole of the quota.