The Consumer Protection Act, 2019
No act or proceeding of the Central Authority shall be invalid merely by reason of—
(a) any vacancy in, or any defect in the constitution of, the Central Authority; or
(b) any defect in the appointment of a person acting as the Chief Commissioner or as a Commissioner; or
(c) any irregularity in the procedure of the Central Authority not affecting the merits of the case.
Source & version
Official text: India Code (official) ↗
Official India Code text: The Consumer Protection Act, 2019, English PDF (bitstream 123456789/12808/1/the_consumer_protection_act,_2019_no._35_of_2019_date_09.08.2019.pdf, 1,236,998 bytes, sha256 0ae7f82ab5b77d50...) fetched directly from indiacode.nic.in (Akamai edge, DNS via dns.google) on 2026-08-03. Extracted via pdftotext 26.07 -bbox and the @nexlex/ingest inline parser. Automated parse; footnotes and amendment history excluded. Spot-verified against the PDF; full clause-level proofread pending.
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