5. The functions of the Board shall be to engage in, and to encourage, foster and facilitate, research into the planting and manufacturing of tea and in particular
| (a) to conduct, assist and encourage, scientific and technological research into, and investigations of, all problems and matters affecting the production and manufacture of tea, including the prevention and control of pests affecting tea, the prevention and control of diseases affecting tea and the improvement of the quality of tea; as well as the diversification of products manufactured from tea ; and to disseminate and publish at its discretion, the results of such research ; |
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| (b) to conduct, assist and encourage, research, into the economic viability of the tea industry in Sri Lanka including future economic trends in such industry; |
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| (c) to maintain and administer the Tea Research Institute situated at Talawakale, and its substations, in accordance with the rules of the Board ; |
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| (d) to establish maintain, relations with research institutions, in Sri Lanka and abroad ; |
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| (e) to conduct, in the discharge of its functions, joint study programmes, seminars or symposia, with foreign research institutions and research institutions in Sri Lanka. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts