Section 14. (1) Any tea estate or any sub-division of a tea estate to which an export quota was allotted under t

(4) The total of all export quotas allotted to tea estates for any financial year shall not exceed the Indian export allotment for that year. (2) The export quota of a tea estate, that is, the total quantity of tea which may be exported by the owner of the tea estate during the financial year, shall be an amount bearing to the crop basis of the estate as determined by the Committee in accordance with the principles set forth in the Schedule the same proportion as the Indian export allotment for the financial year in question bears to the total of the crop basis of all tea estates in India for that year. (3) The crop basis of a tea estate may be re-determined by the Committee if— (a) application is made by the owner of the estate in this behalf before the 30th day of September, 1938, and (b) the Committee is satisfied that there exist grounds of special hardship arising out of circumstances not under the control of the owner or of any previous owner of the estate and relating to conditions existing prior to the 1st day of April, 1933.¹ 14. (1) Any tea estate or any sub-division of a tea estate to which an export quota was allotted under the Indian Tea Control Act, 1933, and any tea estate which the Central Government may within one year from the commencement of this Act authorise to apply for the allotment of an export quota under this Act, shall on application made to the Committee for the allotment to the estate of an export quota have the right, subject to the provisions of this Act, to receive an export quota.