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Union government is preparing to bring a more stringent consumer protection law
that has provisions to safeguard consumers' interests against misleading
advertisements among other things, Union Consumer Affairs Minister Ram Vilas
Paswan said on Friday.
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The
current Consumer Protection Act was enforced in 1986, and over the years with
changing technology, market landscape and consumer aspirations the law has lost
its effectiveness.
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The
Narendra Modi government had introduced a new consumer protection Bill in the
Lok Sabha in August 2015 but it was referred to a Standing Committee after
discussion. The
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Responding
to the issue of misleading advertisements and adulteration in edibles raised by
the members in the Rajya Sabha, Paswan told the House that the government has
reworked the Bill keeping in mind "all the suggestions and reports of the
Standing Committee" and the Cabinet has also cleared the new draft last
week. The Total
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"Now
the new Bill has been cleared by the Cabinet and we will introduce it very soon
in the Lok Sabha, and subsequently in the Rajya Sabha. We have put in great
effort in preparing this Bill, it will address issues of misleading
advertisements such as those claiming to regrow hair or lose weight etc in
these many days et al, among other things," Paswan said.
Earlier,
Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu related a personal experience of how he was once
duped by an unscrupulous advertiser that sold medicine to lose weight. On
complaint to the Ministry, it was found that the advertiser was based in the
US.
The
Consumer Protection Bill, 2015 was found to have many lacunae such as it
empowered the central government to supervise the functioning of, and issue
binding directions to the district, state and national consumer redressal
commissions. This may affect the independence of these quasi-judicial bodies,
many felt. The
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Also,
in order to claim product liability, a claimant was required to establish four
kinds of defects in the product, the injury caused from it, and that it
belonged to the manufacturer. The claimant must also establish that the
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