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The Consumer Welfare Fund Guidelines have been amended and now Section IV Purpose (m) of the updated guidelines includes reimbursement of legal expenses incurred by a complainant, or class of complainants in a consumer dispute, after its final adjudication. The amount of dispute, or the fee of the mediator as set by the President of…
To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. The new Consumer Protection Act, 2019 has been enforced repealing the existing pre-globalisation era Consumer Protection Act, 1986. The new law is not old wine in a new bottle. It brings structural and procedural reforms to the existing law. An attempt has also been made to minimise the inadequacies of the previous Act. The 1986 Act was introduced in India's transforming market place. The archaic law was focused on providing safeguards considering the conventional mode of doing business. Po...