Consumer Welfare Fund

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....l or court, shall be paid from the Fund. (3) Any utilisation of amount from the Consumer Welfare Fund under sub-section (1) of section 58 shall be made by debiting the Consumer Welfare Fund account and crediting the account to which the amount is transferred for utilisation. (4) The [Central/State] Government shall, by an order, constitute a Standing Committee with a Chairman, a Vice-Chairma....

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.... years in viable and useful research activity which has made, or is likely to make, significant contribution in formulation of standard mark of the products of mass consumption, the Central Government or the State Government may make an application for a grant from the Consumer Welfare Fund: Provided that a consumer may make application for reimbursement of legal expenses incurred by him as a c....

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....of consumers are stated to be carried on, to a duly authorised officer of the Central Government or, as the case may be, State Government; (c) to get the accounts of the applicants audited, for ensuring proper utilisation of the grant; (d) to require any applicant, in case of any default, or suppression of material information on his part, to refund in lump-sum, the sanctioned grant to the C....