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REGISTERED No. D. 221

The Gazette of India

EXTRAORDINARY

PART II-Section 2

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

No. 10 ] NEW DELHI, MONDAY, MARCH 3, 1969/PHALGUNA 12, 1890

Separate paging is given to this part in order that it may be filed

as a separate c o m p i l a t i on

LOK SABHA

The following Bill was introduced in Lok Sabha 01 the 3rd March.

1969: —

BILL NO. 14 OF 1969

A Bill further to amend the Tea Act, 1953.

BE it enacted by Parliament in the Twentieth Year of the Republic

of India as follows: —

1. This Act may be called the Tea (Amendment) Act. 1969.

Short title.

2. In the Tea Act, 1953 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act),

29 of 1953.

after section 26, the following section shall be inserted, namely: —

"26A. The Central Government may, after due appropriation made by Parliament by law in this behalf, pay to the Board by way of grants or loans such sums of money as the Central Government may consider necessary."

3. In section 27 of the principal Act, in sub-section (1). after clause (a),

the following clause shall be inserted, namely:—

(aa) any sum of money that may be paid to the Board by way

Insertion of new section 26A. Grants and loans by the Central Govern- ment to the Board Amend- ment of sections 27 at grants or Joans under section 26A;".

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4. In section 49 of the principal Act, for sub-section (3), the follow- ing sub-section shall be substituted, namely;-

Axoend- mtml ct aecticni 43.

" (3) Every rule made under this Act shall be laid as sjj>^g as may be after it is made before each House of Parliament while it is in session for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised m one session or in two successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session in which it is BO laid or the session immediately follow- ing, both Houses agree in making any modification in the rule or both Houses agree that the rule should not be made, the rule shall there- after have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annul- ment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule.".

STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AMD REASONS

The Tea Act, 1953 (29 of 1953), which came mto lorce on thv. 1st April, Ji)j4, seeKs to provide for the control by the Union Government ot the tea industry and for that purpose to establish a Tea Board. The Act also seeiis to levy a duty of excise on tea produced, in India. Section 10 of ine Act sets out the various measures which the Tea Board might, under we control of the Central Government, take for the development of tne xea industry. In pursuance of the provisions of this section, the Tea .Hoard has been operating schemes through which it advances long term loans to tne tea industry for undertaking extensions or replantations. A scneme lor tlie supply of tea machinery to the tea estates on nire-pur- cnase terms is also being operated. These schemes are financed by loans advanced by the Central Government to the Tea Board. It has also been recently decided, on a review of the requirements of the tea industry for long term development, to assist this industry with a subsidy lor re- plantation of old overaged bushes with a view to ensuring a desirawe level of replantation. There is no provision in the Act for the Tea Board receiving either grants-in-ald or loans of the kind that are being advanced to it by the Central Government. It is, therefore, considered necessary to amend the Tea Act, 1953, to enable the Tea Board to receive grants or loans Irom the Central Government for financing schemes for the deve- lopment of the tea industry and also to credit such moneys to the Tea Fund to which the net proceeds of the cess are credited and from which tne expenses of the Board are met

2. The present Bill is intended to enable the above objects to be achieved.

3. Opportunity is being taken to substitute sub-suction (3) of section 49 or the Act relating to ihe laying of the rules before each House of Parlia- ment to bring it into conformity with the present pattern.

CHOWDHURY RAM SPJWAK.

NEW DELHI;

The 19th February, ]%".

PRESIDENT'S RECOMMENDATION UNDER ARTICLE 117 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA

fCopy of letter No. 8(3)-PiantrA)|68, dated the 18th February. 1969 from Chowdhury Ram Stv^ak, Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade and Supply to the Secretary, Lok Sabha.]

The President having been informed of the Tea (Amendment) Bill. 1969, recommends, under article 117(1) and (3) of the Constitution of Jndia. the introduction and consideration of the Bill in the Lok Sabha.

FINANCIAL MEMORANDUM

Clau.se 2 of the Bill provides for grants or Loans to be made by the Central Government to the Tea Board since the cess collected under section 25 of the Tea Act, 1953. is not sufficient to meet the cost of the development schemes of the tea industry, such as Tea Plantation Finance Scheme, Tea Machinery Hire-Purehase Scheme and the Tea Plantation Subsidy Scheme. These grants or loan* by the Central Government are intended to ensure that the activities of the Tea Board do not receive a set-back. The exact amount which may be paid by way of grants or loans will vary from year to year. During 1968-69, a provision of RJB. 130 lakhs for granting loans and a provision of Rs. 5.75 lakhs for granting subsidy under the Replantation Subsidy Scheme have been accepted. For 1969-70, the provisions accepted for granting loans and subsidy are respectively Rs. 116 lakhs and Rs. 43.60 lakhs. It is estimated that a provision of about the same,¹ order will be required annually thereafter. Since the provisions of new section 26A are permissive and not mandatory, it is possible for the Central Government to regulate the expenditure. In any case no such expenditure will be incurred without due appropriation made by Parliament from time to time in this bohalf.

S. I,. SHAKDHER,

Secretary,

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