Section 22. (1) The Committee may charge and collect the following fees, namely:

22. (1) The Committee may charge and collect the following fees, namely:— (a) a licence fee for every export licence or special export licence or permit issued by it, at such rates, not exceeding one rupee per thousand pounds of tea or part thereof covered by the licence or permit, as the Central Government may, on the recommendation of the Committee by notification in the official Gazette, fix in this behalf; (b) a OF 1938.] Indian Tea Control. (b) a fee, not to exceed eight annas per acre of the area concerned, on any application under subsection (3) of section 14 for re-determination of crop basis; and (c) copying fees for certified copies of accounts of quotas, at the rate of one rupee per copy: Provided that the owner of any tea estate to which a quota has been allotted under section 14 may make, or the Committee may require him to make, a consolidated payment of export licence fees at the rate fixed under clause (a) to cover the whole of the quota. (2) The Committee shall apply the fees collected by it under this section to the meeting of expenses incurred by it in pursuance of the purposes of this Act, and, with the previous sanction of the Central Government, to the payment of a contribution towards the maintenance of any international committee established in furtherance of the said purposes in or by tea producing countries generally.