Taxmann's Consumer Protection Act 2019 [Bare Act without Comments | AIBE] – Complete Statutory Text for AIBE-XXII | Amended to the Tribunals Reforms Act 2021 | Supports Rapid Look-ups

Consumer Protection Act 2019 [Bare Act without Comments] by Taxmann for the All India Bar Examination (AIBE) is the 2026 Edition of Act 35 of 2019, the Act to protect the interests of consumers and to establish authorities for the timely and effective settlement of consumers' disputes. It carries all eight Chapters, I to VIII, and all 102 section entries, covering sections 1 to 107 together with sections 37A and 37B. The edition is published for the AIBE-XXII (22) cycle, whose paper is set for 29th November 2026. Printed without notes, comments, annotations or commentary, the volume is in the form the Bar Council of India permits candidates to carry into the AIBE examination hall. The statutory text is freely available; what this edition supplies is that permitted form, the amendment currency and the apparatus that makes a provision quick to reach. The AIBE paper sets 100 questions in 3 hours 30 minutes, a little over two minutes a question, and Law of Tort, including the Motor Vehicles Act and Consumer Protection Law, carries 5 of the 100 marks across several statutes, of which this is one. Three things cost time in an open-book hall. Finding the section is answered by the five-page section-wise contents and by a section number in the running head on every page after the first. Confirming that the words in front of you are the amended words is answered by 13 footnotes, which name the instrument behind each change or correction and the date it took effect, and by the earlier wording reproduced at eight places so the two texts are never confused. Establishing whether a provision is yet in force is answered by 65 commencement footnotes and by the two notifications printed in full by number and date. The volume prints no “law stated as on” line. The latest change in force is made by the Tribunals Reforms Act 2021, with retrospective effect from 4th April 2021, and the footnotes also carry two corrigenda, of 24th April 2020 and 19th August 2021. The Mediation Act 2023 is kept apart: eight footnotes record changes of its making that await notification, among them the substitution of sections 37, 37A and 37B, while Chapter V stands as a bracketed omitted entry for sections 74 to 81 with its superseded text reproduced beneath, and a further footnote records that the Mediation (Removal of Difficulties) Order 2023 of 13th October 2023 amends the substituted text in turn. None of it is printed as law in force. This book is intended for the following audience: AIBE-XXII (22) Candidates—who sit the paper on 29th November 2026 and need this Act in the permitted form, on a head that draws on several statutes and rewards reaching the right one quickly Final-year Law Students—studying consumer law under the 2019 Act, where the three-tier Commission structure and the product liability Chapter are examinable in their own right Advocates—who appear before the District, State and National Commissions and need the amended text and the date each change took effect at the point of reference Coaching Institutes and Law Libraries—stocking a current, pocket-sized text of the Act for the AIBE cycle Consumer-side Juniors and Researchers—working against the staged commencement record, the Central Authority Chapter and the Mediation Act changes that are carried but not yet notified The Present Publication is the 2026 Edition, carrying the amended and updated text of the Consumer Protection Act 2019, published in Taxmann's Bare Act without Comments series for the AIBE, with the following noteworthy features: [Permitted Form] Printed without notes, comments, annotations or commentary, in the form the Bar Council of India permits candidates to carry into the examination hall [Complete Act] All eight Chapters, I to VIII, and all 102 section entries, covering sections 1 to 107 together with sections 37A and 37B, with no Schedule to the Act [Updated & Amended] 78 footnotes: 65 record when a provision came into force, and 13 carry the amendment record, naming the instrument behind a change or correction, the date it took effect and the wording it replaces, current to the Tribunals Reforms Act 2021, in force with retrospective effect from 4th April 2021 [Commencement Traced] Those 65 commencement footnotes run across three dates, 9th August 2019, 20th July 2020 and 24th July 2020, so a reader can tell at the section itself what was notified when [Not Yet in Force, Kept Apart] Eight footnotes mark the Mediation Act 2023 changes, all awaiting notification: sections 37, 37A and 37B are printed in place with the superseded section 37 reproduced beneath, Chapter V stands as a bracketed omitted entry for sections 74 to 81, and a further footnote records that the Mediation (Removal of Difficulties) Order 2023 amends the substituted text in turn [Superseded Text Retained] The wording it replaces reproduced at eight places, the whole of Chapter V, sections 74 to 81, among them, so the text the volume prints and the text it stands in for are both on the page [Section-wise Contents] A five-page contents listing every section entry by number and marginal heading under its Chapter [Running Heads] A section number in the running head on all 51 pages after the opening one, the omitted Chapter V appearing as a range, so a reference given as a section number is found by turning rather than by reading The structure of the book is as follows: The volume opens with a five-page section-wise contents, then the Act as assented to on 9th August 2019 Chapters run I to VIII, from Preliminary through the Consumer Protection Councils, the Central Consumer Protection Authority and the Consumer Disputes Redressal Commissions to Product Liability, Offences and Penalties and Miscellaneous Sections run under their marginal headings, with inserted and substituted matter set in square brackets and keyed to the footnote that records it Chapter V appears as a single marked entry for sections 74 to 81, with the omitted text reproduced beneath it and its own commencement notes retained Footnotes sit at the foot of the page, keyed to superscript markers, with the commencement date given provision by provision The two commencement notifications are printed in full at section 1, by number and date Running heads carry the section number through the body, the opening page alone carrying none The Act has no Schedule; the text ends at section 107 on printed page 52 Read more