WHEREAS it is expedient to provide measures for the expansion of export of tea, to establish new tea gardens and rehabilitate derelict tea gardens, and generally for the promotion of the tea industry, and for levying a cess on tea produced in Bangladesh and to provide certain other matters ancillary thereto; NOW, THEREFORE, in pursuance of the Proclamations of the 20th August, 1975, and the 8th November, 1975, and in exercise of all powers enabling him in that behalf, the Vice-President, acting as President under Article 55 of the Constitution, is pleased to make and promulgate the following Ordinance :-