10. 



" A quarter of the year " means a quarter consisting of the 

 months of January to March, April to June, July to September, or 

 October to December. 



3. It shall be lawful for the High Commissioner to constitute a 

 Committee to be called the Immigration Committee and to define its 

 duties and to appoint such persons as he may think fit to be members 

 of such Committee and to add members to or remove members from 

 such Committee. 



4. Every employer shall comply with the following conditions : 



(a) He shall keep and write up to date or cause to be kept and 

 written up to date books in the English language showing 

 the names of all Tamil labourers employed by him or 

 working on his place of employment, the days on which 

 they have worked and the amounts paid or payable to 

 them as wages ; 



(6) He shall within one calendar month after the end of each 

 quarter of the year send to the Superintendent a return 

 showing the number of Tamil labourers whose names are 

 entered in his register during the preceding quarter of 

 the year, the total amount paid in wages, and the total 

 number of days' work done by all Tamil labourers em- 

 ployed by him or working on his place of employment 

 during the preceding quarter of the year : such return 

 shall be accompanied by a certificate signed by the em- 

 ployer that it is a correct summary of the entries in his 

 register during the preceding quarter of the year ; 



(c) He shall within twenty-one days after the posting to him or 



to his place of employment of a notice stating the amount 

 at which he has been assessed for the last preceding 

 quarter under section 5 of this Enactment pay to the 

 Superintendent the amount mentioned in such notice : 

 such amount shall be a debt due to the State and if not 

 paid within such twenty-one days shall bear interest at 

 the rate of eight per cent, per annum : any notice signed 

 by the Superintendent shall be conclusive evidence that 

 the amount stated therein is due by the employer unless 

 it shall be rectified by the Superintendent or unless the 

 employer shall within fourteen days after the receipt of 

 any notice appeal to the Immigration Committee when 

 the Immigration Committee shall consider the matter and 

 their decision shall be final ; 



(d) He shall, whenever called upon so to do by the Superinten- 



dent or by any officer authorised in writing by the Super- 

 intendent in such behalf, produce for the inspection of the 

 Superintendent or officer so authorised his register and 

 all other books kept by him in so far as they relate to 

 payments made by him in respect of work done by Tamil 

 labourers. 



5. (i) The Immigration Committee may, with the consent of the 

 Kesident-General, prescribe by notification in the Gazette on or before 



