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“ 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 ; 
( b ) 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 
Resident-General, prescribe by notification in the Gazette on or be.ore 
