Section 27. (1) Subject to the provisions of section 29 and section 30, the total area of land in British India,

(3) The Committee shall publish the total areas so determined for the various Provinces by notification in the official Gazette of the Central Government as soon as may be after the commencement of this Act. (2) Subject or 1938.] Indian Tea Control. (4) The Committee shall grant permission for planting new areas to the tea estates in accordance with rules to be prescribed up to a total area in each province as may be determined under sub-clause (3), provided that permission shall be granted to extend an existing area planted with tea only to a tea estate of which the total existing area planted with tea does not exceed 300 acres where the estate is owned by a limited liability company, or 150 acres where it is owned by any individual proprietor or proprietors: Provided that the Committee shall also be empowered to grant extensions for the Toekiai and Nellakotta experimental stations. 27. (1) Subject to the provisions of section 29 and section 30, the total area of land in British India, in respect of which the permissions referred to in section 26 may be granted, shall not exceed one-half of one per cent. of the total area of the land planted with tea in British India on the 31st day of March, 1938. (2) Subject to the provisions of section 29 and section 30, the total area of land in any Province, in respect of which such permissions may be granted, shall be determined by the Committee and shall be as near as may be one-half of one per cent. of the total area in the Province which was planted with tea on the 31st day of March, 1938.