THE COMPETITION ACT, 2002
[Act, No. 12 of 2003]
[13th January, 2003]
PREAMBLE
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:--