MINISTRY OF LAW AND JUSTICE
                                     (Legislative Department)
                                         New Delhi, the 14th January, 2003/Pausa 24, 1924 (Saka)
The following Act of Parliament received the assent of the President on the 13lh January, 2003
and is hereby published for general information:—
                                  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:—