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1 · Short Title and Commencement -

2 · Definitions: In this Order; unless the context otherwise requires

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3 · Distributors and Exporters to obtain business licence No distributor shall carry 0n the business of distributing imported tea ad no exporter shall export tea or export imported tea except under a business licence obtained in accordance with the provisions of this Order:

4 · Application for business licence or permanent business licence ~ (1) Every exporter and every distributor desiring to obtain a business licence shall make an application in duplicate to the Licensing Authority in Form A.

5 · Application for Certificate of Origin fr teas designated as Geographicel Indication- Every applicant desiring to obtain a Certificate of Origin in respect of teas proposed t0 be exported O distributed by him, which has been produced and manufactured in any tea producing areas in India and designated as Geographical Indication under the Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act 1999 (48 of 1999), shall make an application in duplicate to the Licensing Authority in Forin C.

6 · Application for Nou-Preferential Certificate of Origin- Every exporter desiring to obtain a Non-Preferential Certificate of Origin in respect of each consignment of tea exports shall make an application in Form D in duplicate to the Licensing Authority Or to ay officer of the Board or to any inspection agency duly authorisedapproved by the Licensing Authority:

8 · Grant and refusal of business licence/permanent business licence to exporters- (1) The Licensing Authority may, for sufficient reasons to be recorded in writing, refuse to grant a business licence to any applicant and shall furnish him with a copy of the order so passed:

9 · Grant and refusal of business licence to distributor- (1) The Licensing Authority may, for sufficient reasons to be recorded in writing refuse to grant a business licence to any applicant and shall furnish him with a copy of the order $0 passed:

10 · Grant and refusal of Certificate of Origin for teas designated a5 Geographical Indications- (1) The Licensing Authority or any officer of the Board not below the rank of Joint Controller of Licensing duly authorized by the Licensing Authority may, for Sufficient reasons to be recorded in writing refuse to grant a Certificate of Origin to any applicant and shall furnish him with a copy of the order so passed: Provided that before passing an order of refusal, an opportunity of being heard shall be granted to the applicant.

11 · Grant and refusal of Non-Preferential Certificate of Origin- (1) The Licensing Authority or any officer of the Board not below the rank of' Joint Controller of Licensing duly authorized by the Licensing Authority, or any inspection agency duly approved by the Licensing Authority may, for reasons to be recorded in writing, refuse to grant a Certificate of Origin to any exporter and shall furnish him with the copy of the order s0 passed.

12 · Period of validity of business licence- (1) Every business licence for an exporter shall be valid for a period of three years from the date of its issue and every business licence once renewed shall also remain valid for & further period of three years from the date of its renewal unless the business licence is cancelled or suspended during the validity period. (2) Every permanent business licence for an exporter shall remain valid unless subsequently cancelled or suspended.

13 · Period of validity of Certificate of Origin (1) The Certificate of Origin issued under sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 10 and under sub-paragraph (2) of paragreph 11 shall be valid only in respect of the consignment of tea to be exported. (2) Notwithstanding the above, any Certificate of Origin shall be valid till the expiry of validity of the exporter' $ business licence o sixty days; whichever is earlier:

14 · Renewal of business licence- (1) The Licensing Authority may , on an application made to it in duplicate, renew a business licence : Every such application for renewal shall be submitted in Form J and renewal thereof shall be granted by the Licensing Authority in Form K.

15 · Signing of business licence or permanent business licence- Notwithstanding anything contained in paragraph 8 or paragraph 14, any business licence issued or renewed under this Order may be signed by the Secretary or by any other officer; not below the rank of Controller of Licensing of the Tea Board for and on behalf of the Licensing Authority and duly authorized by him in this regard

16 · Signing of Certificate of Origin- Notwithstanding anything contained in paragraph 10 or paragraph 41 or paragraph 13 above, any Certificate of Origin issued under this Order may be signed by the Secretary or by any officer of the Board not below the rank of Joint Controller of Licensing duly authorized by the Licensing Authority or by any inspection agency duly approved by the Licensing Authority.

17 · Fee- Every application for the grant of a business licence O renewal thereof shall be accompanied by the following fees (payable in cash/demand draft); namely -

18 · Conditions of business lieence (1) Every business licence shall be deemed to have been granted or renewed personally to the business licensee and no business licence shall be sold or otherwise transferred

19 · Business licensees to compty with certain requirementa iu regard to packing: etc - Every business licensee shall, in regard to the packing and marking of containers of tea, comply with the following requirements, namely:

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20 · Certain provisions of paragraph 19 not to apply- Nothing contained in clause (b) and (c) of paragraph 19 shall apply to the export of such consignments of tea in bulk in containers made of packing materials (other than plywood) as agreed upon by the exporter and the foreign buyer:

21 · Restriction on distribution and erport of tea No exporter or distributor shall himself or by ay other person on his behalf, export tea or export imported tea (a) which is not packed and marked in the manner laid down in this Order; or (b) which is adulterated; 0r (c) the label or container whereof bears any statement which makes false claim for such tea or which is false or misleading in any material particular; or (d) which is not in conformity with the specifications for tea given in clause (v) of paragraph 2; (e) teas imported for export have to be exported within six months from the date of import into the country; (f) export of imported teas shall achieve at least 5O% Value Addition.

2 · Tea shall be deemed to be adulterated if, (a) such tea is not of nature Or substance which it purports O is represented to be; (b) such tea contains any other substance which affects injuriously the nature; substance or quality thereof; (c) any inferior or cheaper substance has been substituted wholly or in part for such tea So as to affect injuriously the nature, substance or quality thereof; (d) such tea contains any poisonous or other ingredient which renders it injurious to health:

3 · Value Addition for this purpose shall be

22 · Restriction o distribution of imported tea - No distributor of imported tea or exporter shall himself o by any Other person on his behalf import for export and distribute tea

23 · Power to call for export contract- Licensing Authority or any other officer of the Boerd, not below the rank of Joint Controller of Licensing, duly authorized by Licensing Authority may, for the purpose of ensuring the adherence to any provision of this Order or for ensuring compliance with the requirement of the export obligations, call for a copy of the export contract and /or other documents relevant to the export from the exporter of tea in India, or the approved inspection agency concerned, within & time as may be specified by the Licensing Authority or such officer of the Board, duly authorized by the Licensing Authority. 24. Power t0 inspect the consignment prior t0 export- The Licensing Authority or ay officer of the Board, not below the rank of Inspector or any inspection

26 · Power to register the export contract- Licensing Authority or any officer of Board; not below the rank of Joint Controller of Licensing duly authorized by the Licensing Authority, may register the export contract as per the procedure to be stipulated by the Licensing Authority from time to time before shipment of tea from India under such export contract:

27 · 0 Suspension or cancellation of business licence or permanent business licence-

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28 · Suspension or cancellation of Certificate of Origin (1) The Licensing Authority, may after giving the holder of a Certificate of Origin &n opportunity of being heard, cancel Or suspend the Certificate on any of the following grounds, namely:

29 · Taking of samples The Licensing Authority may take or authorize any officer of the Tea Board; not below the rank of Inspector Or any inspection agency, t0 take any sample of not more than one kilogram in weight drawn from any stock of' tea for the purpose of ascertaining whether such sample conforms to the requirements laid down for tea or whether such sample conforms to the rules of

30 · Submission of information or returns by the business licensee- Every business licensee and/or every inspection agency duly approved by the Licensing Authority shall furnish to the Licensig Authority O to any officer of the Board, not below the rank of Joint Controller of Licensing, monthly returns and such other inforation as may be called for from time to time.

31 · Maintenance of accounts etc: and production o such accounts etc by licensees -(1) The Licensing Authority may issue directions to any licensee:

32 · Service of orders and directions T Any order of direction made or issued by the Licensing Authority or by any other authority under this Order shall (a) in the case of an order of a general nature or 'affecting a class of persons, be notified in the Official Gazette and (b) in the case of an order directed to a specified individual, be served o such individual

33 · Compliance of directions- Every exporter Or distributor shall carryout the directions issued under any provision of this order by any officer of the Board not below the rank of Joint Controller of Licensing duly authorized by the Licensing

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35 · Power of entry and search and seizure etc: (1) The Licensing Authority Or any officer of the Tea Board, not below the rank of Inspectors, specially authorised by him in writing in this behalf; may enter and search at ay time any land, building premises, vessels, air-craft or plant or machinery upon O in which the Licensing Authority has reason to believe that tea is stored; carried, distributed or sold in contravention of the provisions of this Order and may seize ay tea or product of tea which appears to be stored, carried, distributed Or sold in contravention of the provisions of this Order:

36 · Power t approve inspection agency- The Licensing Authority may approve agencies to inspect the tea meant for export on their credential through an technical committee constituted by the Licensing Authority for this purpose and such approved inspection agency may inspect tea along with its container O packs and other documents meant for export to ensure conformity with the provision of this Order: The function of such approved agency may be stipulated by the Licensing Authority from time to time.

37 · Power to approve tea tasters for constituting 4 panel- The Licensing Authority or any officer of the Board, not below the rank of Executive Director; may from time to time approve tea tasters for the purpose of constituting a panel for tasting tea from the sample drawn by the Licensing Authority or any officer of the Board;,not below the rank of Joint Controller of Licensing or any inspection agency duly authorized by the Licensing authority and such panel comprising one or more tea tasters from the approved list shall submit a report of the tea tasting to the Licensing Authority or the authorized officer of the Board or any inspection agency within the time specified by the Licensing Authority O such officer or inspection agency:

38 · Powver to suspend or cancel the approval of the inspection agency- The Licensing Authority may, after giving an opportunity of being heard, for reasons to be recorded in writing may suspend or cancel the approval of an inspection agency on any of the following grounds, namely, (a) that the inspection agency has obtained the approval by misrepresentation as to & material particular; (b) that the approved inspection agency has not complied with any of the directions of the Licensing Authority or failed to perform its obligations laid down in the rules, orders or guidelines in force under the Act; (c) that any of the provisions of this Order have been 6.;ravered;

39 · Appeel _ ~ (1) Any person aggrieved by an order;

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40 · Power to relax Ta With the prior approval of the Central Government;, tbe Licensing Authority may, of its own or o an application submitted by & licensee, if satisfied that in enforcing compliance of any of the provisions of this Order, undue hardship would result to any licensee, for reasons to be recorded in writing relax any such provision of this Order or exempt any licensee from complying with such provisions of this Order:

41 · Penal provision for contraventiou of any provisions of this Order- Any contravention of any provisions of this Order by ay exporter or distributor Or any person acting o his behalf, shall attract the provisions of section 41 of the Tea Act; 1953.

3 · Nature of business licence required

5 · Proprietary marks 6. Amount of fees paid

1 · Name of applicant (in block letters) (in case of partnership concem the names of all the partners should be given) 2. Full Address (to which correspondence should be sent) 3, Nature of business licence required. 4 Full address of the various premises, if any in which the applicant intends to do business; or where blending andor packing will be done _ 5 Proprietory Marks .

1 · Goods consigned from (Exporter' $ business name,_address_country) 2. Goods consigned to (Consignee' $ name, address, country)

10 · Number and date of invoices.

2 · Name of the Importer with RegisteredHHead office address 3. IEC Code no. 4. Gross weight of tea (in kgs) in the consigment 5. Net weight of tea (in kgs) in the consignment 6. Details of inputs used in Export_product Details of quantity of tea Description of export Packing of different origin and product i.e. whether details origin of other inputs bulk Or packet or tea Iconsumables used in the bags export product or instant tea or flavoured tea

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