Section 20. (1) The Committee may serve by post a notice upon the owner of any tea estate or upon his manager, r

20. (1) The Committee may serve by post a notice upon the owner of any tea estate or upon his manager, requiring him to furnish, within such period not being less than thirty days as it may specify in the notice, such returns relating to the production, sale and export of tea produced on the estate, or to any other matter as it may deem necessary to enable it to discharge its duties under this Chapter. (2) Where any return required under sub-section (1) in respect of any tea estate is not furnished within the period specified in the notice, the Committee may refuse XIX of 1924. Power of Committee to call for returns. Indian Tea Control. [ACT VIII] Power of Committee to require evidence of ownership. refuse to allot a quota to that estate under section 14, or, where a quota has already been allotted, may cancel the unexhausted balance of that quota and refuse to issue any further export licences under section 16 against that quota or to recognise or give effect to any transfer under section 15.