THE
COMPETITION ACT, 2002
No. 12 OF 2003
[13th January, 2003.]
An Act to provide, keeping in
view of the economic development of the country, for the establishment of a Commission to
prevent practices having adverse effect on competition, to promote and sustain competition
in markets, to protect the interests of consumers and to ensure freedom of trade carried on by
other participants in markets, in India, and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
BE it enacted by Parliament in
the Fifty-third Year of the Republic of India as follows:—