Section 13: Keeping of accounts

13. Keeping of accounts.___(1) The Committee shall keep accounts of all moseys received and expended by it. (2) The accounts maintained by the Committee shall be audited by the auditors appointed for the purpose by the Board with the previous approval of the 1[Federal Government]. (3) A statement of the accounts as audited 2[together with a report on its activities] shall be furnished by the Committee to the Board and to the 1[Federal Government] as soon as possible after the end of each financial year. CHAPTER IV CONTROL OVER 3[CULTIVATION AND] EXPORTS 4[13A. Power to direct compulsory expansion.___ (1) The 1[Federal Government] may, by general or special order, direct the owner of an estate to plant or replant tea on such minimum area in that estate every year as may be specified in the order. (2) Any owner of an estate who fails to comply with any direction issued under sub-section (1) shall be liable to pay a fine to be computed at the rate of one thousand rupees per year per acre of land in respect of which he makes default till such time as the default is made good. (3) The fine imposed under sub-section (2) shall be realized as a public demand or as an arrear of land revenue].

Effective date: 1959-01-01

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