Section 16. (1) The owner of any tea estate to which an export quota has been allotted or any person to whom he

16. (1) The owner of any tea estate to which an export quota has been allotted or any person to whom he has transferred his rights may at any time before the 21st day of March of the financial year to which the quota relates apply in writing to the Committee for an export licence covering a stated quantity of tea. (2) If the unexhausted balance of the quota is sufficient to cover the stated quantity, the Committee shall on receipt of the requisite fee issue an export licence covering the stated quantity. (3) Every licence shall be in duplicate in the prescribed form, shall bear the date of its issue and shall be valid up to the end of the financial year in which it is issued: Provided S. Added (tamp.) by s. 4 of Ordinance III of 1940. Indian Tea Control. [ACT VIII Provided that save as provided in section 17 the Committee shall not date or issue any export licence after the end of the financial year in which the application for it was made. Special export licences.