https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=297853 The court held that a statutory regulator cannot infer price-fixing power from general consumer-protection, monitoring, or rule-making provisions unless the parent Act clearly authorises it. It found no express power to fix or regulate the maximum retail price of gas sold to consumers, because the statutory definition treated that price as one fixed by the entity itself. It also held that transportation tariff provisions could not be expanded into authority to fix network tariff or compression charge components for an entity operating its own distribution network. The impugned order and supporting regulations were struck down to that extent. en-us Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 24 Sep 2021 15:41:10 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=297853 The court held that a statutory regulator cannot infer price-fixing power from general consumer-protection, monitoring, or rule-making provisions unless the parent Act clearly authorises it. It found no express power to fix or regulate the maximum retail price of gas sold to consumers, because the statutory definition treated that price as one fixed by the entity itself. It also held that transportation tariff provisions could not be expanded into authority to fix network tariff or compression charge components for an entity operating its own distribution network. The impugned order and supporting regulations were struck down to that extent. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=297853