Inquiry into certain agreements and dominant position of enter­prise

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.... or a statutory authority. ^2[Provided that the Commission shall not entertain an information or a reference unless it is filed within three years from the date on which the cause of action has arisen:  Provided further that an information or a reference may be entertained after the period specified in the first proviso if the Commission is satisfied that there had been sufficient cause for not filing the information or the reference within such period after recording its reasons for condoning such delay.] (2) Without prejudice to the provisions contained in sub-section (1), the powers and functions of the Commission shall include the powers and functions specified in sub-sections (3) to (7). (3) The Commission shall, while....

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....h capital cost of entry, marketing entry barriers, technical entry barriers, economies of scale, high cost of substitutable goods or service for consumers; (i) countervailing buying power; (j) market structure and size of market; (k) social obligations and social costs; (l) relative advantage, by way of the contribution to the eco­nomic development, by the enterprise enjoying a dominant position having or likely to have appreciable adverse effect on competi­tion; (m) any other factor which the Commission may consider relevant for the inquiry. (5) For determining whether a market constitutes a "relevant market" for the purposes of this Act, the Commission shall have due regard to the "r....