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Consumer, 'consumer' would include 'any person who consumes electrical energy supplied by a person who generates electrical energy for his own consumption', Jiyajee Rao Cotton Mills Ltd. v. State of Madhya Pradesh, AIR 1963 SC 414: (1962) Supp 1 SCR 282.The definition of the word 'consumer' shows that it would include a person who consumes energy generated by himself. The proposition that in the matter of the levy of electricity tax the Court should differentiate between cases wherein the energy consumed has been generated by someone other than the consumer and those wherein such energy has been generated by the consumer himself cannot, therefore, be countenanced, State of Mysore v. West Coast Papers Mills Ltd., (1975) 3 SCC 448: AIR 1975 SC 5: (1975) 2 SCR 127.The word 'consumer' is a comprehensive expression. It extends from a person who buys any commodity to consume either as eatable or otherwise from a shop, business house, corporation, store, fair price shop to use of private or p...
Consumer and service
Consumer and service, it is imperative that the words 'consumer' and 'service' as defined under the Act should be construed to comprehend consumer and services of commercial and trade oriented nature only. Thus any person who is found to have hired services for consideration shall be deemed to be a consumer notwithstanding that the services were in connection with any goods or their user. Such services may be for any connected commercial activity and may also relate to the services as indicated in s. 2(1)(o) of the Act, Regional Provident Fund Commissioner v. Shiv Kumar Joshi, AIR 2000 SC 331 (336). [Consumer Protection Act, (68 of 1986), s. 2(1)(d), s. 2(1)(o)]...
Consumer forum
Consumer forum, means a District forum, a consumer Disputes Redressal Commission establishment in a State under clause (b) of section 9 (hereafter called the State Commission) or the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission [Consumer Protection Regulations, 2005, R. 2(b)...
consumer credit
consumer credit : credit extended by merchants or banks to finance the purchase of consumer goods (as home appliances) or services (as travel or hotel accommodations) compare consumer debt at debt ...
Consumer Co-operative Society
Consumer Co-operative Society, Consumers' co-operative societies form a distinct class by themselves. Benefits and concessions granted to them ultimately benefit persons of small means and promote social justice in accordance with the directive principles. There is an intelligible differentia between the retail dealers who are nothing but traders and consumers' cooperative societies. The position would have been different if there was a monopoly created in favour of the latter. The Scheme only envisages a rule of preference, Madhya Pradesh Ration Vikreta Sangh Society v. State of Madhya Pradesh, (1981) 4 SCC 535: AIR 1981 SC 2001: (1982) 1 SCR 750....
Consumer hire agreement
Consumer hire agreement, the vehicle and credit hire agreements restrict the hiring to a period not exceeding 12 weeks, the liability to pay under the credit hire agreement subsists for more than three months so these are consumer hire agreements, Burdis v. Livsey (CA), (2003) LR 36 QB.Is an agreement for the bailment of goods to the hirer which: '(I).........(a) is not a hire-purchase agreement, and (b) is capable of subsisting for more than there months; and (c) does not require, the hirer to make payments exceeding ' 25,000', Burdis v. Livsey (CA), (2002) 3 WLR 762 [Consumer Credit (Increase of Monetary Limits) Order 1998, s. 15]...
Contracting as consumer
Contracting as consumer, A person enters into a contract as a consumer where he neither makes the contract in the course of a business nor holds himself out as so doing, the other party does make the contract in the course of a business, and any goods passing are of a type ordinarily supplied for private use or consumption, Consumer Arbitration Agreements Act, 1988, s. 3(1) (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. (2), para 615, p. 342....
consumer debtor
consumer debtor A debtor whose debts are primarily consumer debts. Source: Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts ...
Consumer
One who or that which consumes as the consumer of food...
consumer price index
An index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer calculated and published by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics abbreviated CPI and usually referred to by that acronym The Bureau maintains several indices for different groups of consumers but the most commonly referred to is the index for ldquoAll urban consumersrdquo called the CPI U The increase of this value each year is one measure of monetary inflation...
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