The petitioner is an in-corporated company, having a factory at Rayonpuram in Ernakulam District, wherein rayon yarn and cellulose film are manufactured. The term 'textiles' is defined in Section 2(g) of the Textiles Committee Act, 1963; and rayon yarn is a textile within the meaning of that definition. The Textile Committee Act is a Central enactment to provide for the establishment of a Committee for ensuring the quality of textiles and textile machinery and for matters connected with it. The first respondent is the Textile Committee, constituted under that Act; and respondents 2 and 3 are the Union of India and the State of Kerala respectively.

2. Section 4 of the Act lays down the functions of the Committee. Sec.11 provides for inspection and examination of textiles and textile machinery. Section 12 empowers the Committee to levy such fees as may be prescribed for such inspection or examination, or for any such service which the Committee may render to the manufacturers of textiles and textile machinery. It is necessary to notice the full ambit of the above provisions; and it is better to read them:-

'Section 4 (1) Subject to the provisions of this Act the functions of th