1 - Short title, extent, commencement and application.
2 - Definitions.
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3 - Central Consumer Protection Council.
4 - Procedure for meetings of Central Council.
5 - Objects of Central Council.
6 - State Consumer Protection Councils.
7 - Objects of State Council.
8 - District Consumer Protection Council.
9 - Objects of District Council.
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10 - Establishment of Central Consumer Protection Authority.
11 - Qualifications, method of recruitment, etc., of Chief Commissioner and Commissioners.
12 - Vacancy, etc., not to invalidate proceedings of Central Authority.
13 - Appointment of officers, experts, professionals and other employees of Central Authority.
14 - Procedure of Central Authority.
15 - Investigation Wing.
16 - Power of District Collector.
17 - Complaints to authorities.
18 - Powers and functions of Central Authority.
19 - Power of Central Authority to refer matter for investigation or to other Regulator.
20 - Power of Central Authority to recall goods, etc.
21 - Power of Central Authority to issue directions and penalties against false or misleading advertisements.
22 - Search and seizure.
23 - Designation of any statutory authority or body to function as Central Authority.
24 - Appeal.
25 - Grants by Central Government.
26 - Accounts and audit.
27 - Furnishing of annual reports, etc.
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28 - Establishment of District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission.
29 - Qualifications, etc., of President and members of District Commission.
30 - Salaries, allowances and other terms and conditions of service of President and members of District Commission.
31 - Transitional provision.
32 - Vacancy in office of member of District Commission.
33 - Officers and other employees of District Commission.
34 - Jurisdiction of District Commission.
35 - Manner in which complaint shall be made.
36 - Proceedings before District Commission.
37 - Reference to mediation.
38 - Procedure on admission of complaint.
39 - Findings of District Commission.
40 - Review by District Commission in certain cases.
41 - Appeal against order of District Commission.
42 - Establishment of State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission.
43 - Qualifications, etc., of President and members of State Commission.
44 - Salaries, allowances and other terms and conditions of service of President and members of State Commission.
45 - Transitional provision.
46 - Officers and employees of State Commission.
47 - Jurisdiction of State Commission.
48 - Transfer of cases.
49 - Procedure applicable to State Commission.
50 - Review by State Commission in certain cases.
51 - Appeal to National Commission.
52 - Hearing of appeal.
53 - Establishment of National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission.
54 - Composition of National Commission.
55 - Qualifications, etc., of President and members of National Commission.
56 - Transitional provision.
57 - Other officers and employees of National Commission.
58 - Jurisdiction of National Commission.
59 - Procedure applicable to National Commission.
60 - Review by National Commission in certain cases.
61 - Power to set aside ex parte orders.
62 - Transfer of cases.
63 - Vacancy in office of President of National Commission.
64 - Vacancies or defects in appointment not to invalidate orders.
65 - Service of notice, etc.
66 - Experts to assist National Commission or State Commission.
67 - Appeal against order of National Commission.
68 - Finality of orders.
69 - Limitation period.
70 - Administrative control.
71 - Enforcement of orders of District Commission, State Commission and National Commission.
72 - Penalty for non-compliance of order.
73 - Appeal against order passed under section 72.
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74 - Establishment of consumer mediation cell.
75 - Empanelment of mediators.
76 - Nomination of mediators from panel.
77 - Duty of mediator to disclose certain facts.
78 - Replacement of mediator in certain cases.
79 - Procedure for mediation.
80 - Settlement through mediation.
81 - Recording settlement and passing of order.
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82 - Application of Chapter.
83 - Product liability action 84. Liability of product manufacturer.
84 - Liability of product manufacturer
85 - Liability of product service provider.
86 - Liability of product sellers.
87 - Exceptions to product liability action.
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88 - Penalty for non-compliance of direction of Central Authority.
89 - Punishment for false or misleading advertisement.
90 - Punishment for manufacturing for sale or storing, selling or distributing or importing products containing adulterant.
91 - Punishment for manufacturing for sale or for storing or selling or distributing or importing spurious goods.
92 - Cognizance of offence by court.
93 - Vexatious search.
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94 - Measures to prevent unfair trade practices in e-commerce, direct selling, etc.
95 - Presidents, members, Chief Commissioner, Commissioner and certain officers to be public servants.
96 - Compounding of offences.
97 - Manner of crediting penalty.
98 - Protection of action taken in good faith.
99 - Power to give directions by Central Government.
100 - Act not in derogation of any other.
101 - Power of Central Government to make rules.
102 - Power of State Government to make rules.
103 - Power of National Commission to make regulations.
104 - Power of Central Authority to make regulations.
105 - Rules and regulations to be laid before each House of Parliament.
106 - Power to Remove Difficulties.
107 - Repeal and savings.
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1 - Short title and extent.
2 - Definitions.
3 - Innocent publication and distribution of matter not contempt.
4 - Fair and accurate report of judicial proceeding not contempt.
5 - Fair criticism of judicial act not contempt.
6 - Complaint against presiding officers of subordinate courts when not contempt.
7 - Publication of information relating to proceedings in chambers or in camera not contempt except in certain cases.
8 - Other defences not affected.
9 - Act not to imply enlargement of scope of contempt.
10 - Power of High Court to punish contempts of subordinate courts.
11 - Power of High Court to try offences committed or offenders found outside jurisdiction.
12 - Punishment for contempt of court.
13 - Contempts not punishable in certain cases.
14 - Procedure where contempt is in the face of the Supreme Court or a High Court.
15 - Cognizance of criminal contempt in other cases.
16 - Contempt by judge, magistrate or other person acting judicially.
17 - Procedure after cognizance.
18 - Hearing of cases of criminal contempt to be by Benches.
19 - Appeals.
20 - Limitation for actions for contempt.
21 - Act not to apply to Nyaya Panchayats or other village courts.
22 - Act to be in addition to, and not in derogation of, other laws relating to contempt.
23 - Power of Supreme Court and High Courts to make rules.
24 - Repeal.
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1 - Title and extent.
2 - Definitions.
3 - Recovery of public demands by enforcement of processes in other districts than those in which they become payable.
4 - Remedy available to person denying liability to pay amount recovered under last foregoing section.
5 - Recovery by Collectors of sums recoverable as arrears of revenue by other public officers or by local authorities.
6 - Property liable to sale under this Act.
7 - Saving of local laws relating to revenue.
8 - Recovery in India of certain public demands arising beyond India.
9 - Recovery in India of land revenues etc., accruing in Burma.
10 - Duty of Collectors to remit moneys collected in certain cases.
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1 - Short title.
2 - [Repealed.].
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3 - Definitions.
4 - Application of foregoing definitions to previous enactments.
4A - Application of certain definitions to Indian Laws.
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5 - Coming into operation of enactments.
5A - [Repealed.].
6 - Effect of repeal.
6A - Repeal of Act making textual amendment in Act or Regulation.
7 - Revival of repealed enactments.
8 - Construction of references to repealed enactments.
9 - Commencement and termination of time.
10 - Computation of time.
11 - Measurement of distances.
12 - Duty to be taken pro rata in enactments.
13 - Gender and number.
13A - [Repealed.].
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14 - Powers conferred to be exercisable from time to time.
15 - Power to appoint to include power to appoint ex officio.
16 - Power to appoint to include power to suspend or dismiss.
17 - Substitution of functionaries.
18 - Successors.
19 - Official chiefs and subordinates.
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20 - Construction of orders, etc., issued under enactments.
21 - Power to issue, to include power to add to, amend, vary or rescind notifications, orders, rules or bye-laws.
22 - Making of rules or bye-laws and issuing of orders between passing and commencement of enactment.
23 - Provisions applicable to making of rules or bye-laws after previous publication.
24 - Continuation of orders, etc., issued under enactments repealed and re-enacted.
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25 - Recovery of fines.
26 - Provision as to offences punishable under two or more enactments.
27 - Meaning of service by post.
28 - Citation of enactments.
29 - Saving for previous enactments, rules and bye-laws.
30 - Application of Act to Ordinances.
30A - Repealed.
31 - [Repealed.].
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1 - Title, extent and saving.
2 - Power to court to order sale instead of division in partition suits.
3 - Procedure when sharer undertakes to buy.
4 - Partition suit by transferee of share in dwelling-house.
5 - Representation of parties under disability.
6 - Reserved bidding and bidding by shareholders.
7 - Procedure to be followed in case of sales.
8 - Orders for sale to be deemed decrees.
9 - Saving of power to order partly partition and partly sale.
10 - Application of Act to pending suits.
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1 - Title.
1A - Definition of “appropriate Government”.
2 - [Repealed.].
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3 - Levy of fees in High Courts on their original sides.
4 - Fees on documents filed, etc., in High Courts in their extraordinary jurisdiction.
5 - Procedure in case of difference as to necessity or amount of fee.
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6 - Fees on documents filed, etc., in Mofussil Courts or in public offices.
7 - Computation of fees payable in certain suits.
8 - Fee on memorandum of appeal against order relating to compensation.
9 - Power to ascertain net profits or market-value.
10 - Procedure where net profits or market-value wrongly estimated.
11 - Procedure in suits for mesne profits or account when amount decreed exceeds amount claimed.
12 - Decision of questions as to valuation.
13 - Refund of fee paid on memorandum of appeal.
14 - Refund of fee on application for review of judgment.
15 - Refund where Court reverses or modifies its former decision on ground of mistake.
16 - [Repealed.].
17 - Multifarious suits.
18 - Written examinations of complainants.
19 - Exemption of certain documents.
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19A - Relief where too high a court-fee has been paid.
19B - Relief where debts due from a deceased person have been paid out of his estate.
19C - Relief in case of several grants.
19D - Probates declared valid as to trust-property though not covered by court-fee.
19E - Provision for case where too low a court-fee has been paid on probates, etc.
19F - Administrator to give proper security before letters stamped under section.
19G - Executors, etc., not paying full court-fee on probates, etc., within six months after discovery of underpayment.
19H - Notice of applications for probate or letters of administration to be given to Revenue authorities, and procedure thereon.
19-I - Payment of court-fees in respect of probates and letters of administration
19J - Recovery of penalties, etc.
19K - Sections 6 and 28 not to apply to probates or letters of administration.
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20 - Rules as to cost of processes.
21 - Tables of process-fees.
22 - Number of peons in District and subordinate Courts.
23 - Number of peons in Revenue Courts.
24 - [Repealed.].
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25 - Collection of fees by stamps.
26 - Stamps to be impressed or adhesive.
27 - Rules for supply, number, renewal and keeping accounts of stamps.
28 - Stamping documents inadvertently received.
29 - Amended document.
30 - Cancellation of stamp.
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31 - [Repealed.].
32 - [Repealed.].
33 - Admission in criminal cases of documents for which proper fee has not been paid.
34 - Sale of stamps.
35 - Power to reduce or remit fees.
36 - Saving of fees to certain officers of High Courts.
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1 - Short title.
2 - Repeal of enactments.
3 - Interpretation-clause.
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4 - Lawful purpose.
5 - Trust of immoveable property.
6 - Creation of trust.
7 - Who may create trusts.
8 - Subject of trust
9 - Who may be beneficiary.
10 - Who may be trustee.
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11 - Trustee to execute trust.
12 - Trustee to inform himself of state of trust-property.
13 - Trustee to protect title to trust-property.
14 - Trustee not to set up title adverse to beneficiary.
15 - Care required from trustee.
16 - Conversion of perishable property.
17 - Trustee to be impartial.
18 - Trustee to prevent waste.
19 - Accounts and information.
20 - Investment of trust-money.
20A - Power to purchase redeemable stock at a premium.
21 - Mortgage of land pledged to Government under Act 26 of 1871.
22 - Sale by trustee directed to sell within specified time.
23 - Liability for breach of trust.
24 - No set-off allowed to trustee.
25 - Non-liability for predecessor’s default.
26 - Non-liability for co-trustee’s default.
27 - Several liability of co-trustees.
28 - Non-liability of trustee paying without notice of transfer by beneficiary.
29 - Liability of trustee where beneficiary’s interest is forfeited to the Government.
30 - Indemnity of trustees.
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31 - Right to title-deed.
32 - Right to reimbursement of expenses.
33 - Right to indemnity from gainer by breach of trust.
34 - Right to apply to Court for opinion in management of trust -property.
35 - Right to settlement of accounts.
36 - General authority of trustee.
37 - Power to sell in lots, and either by public auction or private contract.
38 - Power to sell under special conditions.
39 - Power to convey.
40 - Power to vary investments.
41 - Power to apply property of minors, etc., for their maintenance, etc.
42 - Power to give receipts.
42 - Power to give receipts.
43 - Power to compound, etc.
44 - Power to several trustees of whom one disclaims or dies.
45 - Suspension of trustee’s powers by decree.
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46 - Trustee cannot renounce after acceptance.
47 - Trustee cannot delegate.
48 - Co-trustees cannot act singly.
49 - Control of discretionary power.
50 - Trustee may not charge for services.
51 - Trustee may not use trust-property for his own profit.
52 - Trustee for sale or his agent may not buy.
53 - Trustee may not buy beneficiary’s interest without permission.
54 - Co-trustees may not lend to one of themselves.
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55 - Rights to rents and profits.
56 - Right to specific execution.
57 - Right to inspect and take copies of instrument of trust, accounts, etc.
58 - Right to transfer beneficial interest.
59 - Right to sue for execution of trust.
60 - Right to proper trustees.
61 - Right to compel to any act of duty.
62 - Wrongful purchase by trustee.
63 - Following trust-property into the hands of third persons; into that into which it has been converted.
64 - Saving of rights of certain transferees.
65 - Acquisition by trustee of trust-property wrongfully converted.
66 - Right in case of blended property.
67 - Wrongful employment by partner-trustee of trust property for partnership purposes.
68 - Liability of beneficiary joining in breach of trust.
69 - Rights and liabilities of beneficiary’s transferee.
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70 - Office how vacated.
71 - Discharge of trustee.
72 - Petition to be discharged from trust.
73 - Appointment of new trustees on death, etc.
74 - Appointment by Court.
75 - Vesting of trust-property in new trustees
76 - Survival of trust.
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77 - Trust how extinguished.
78 - Revocation of trust.
79 - Revocation not to defeat what trustees have duly done.
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80 - Where obligation in nature of trust is created.
81 - [Repealed.].
82 - [Repealed.].
83 - Trust incapable of execution or executed without exhausting trust -property.
84 - Transfer for illegal purpose.
85 - Bequest for illegal purpose.
86 - Transfer pursuant to rescindable contract.
87 - Debtor becoming creditor’s representative.
88 - Advantage gained by fiduciary.
89 - Advantage gained by exercise of undue influence.
90 - Advantage gained by qualified owner.
91 - Property acquired with notice of existing contract
92 - Purchase by person contracting to buy property to be held on trust.
93 - Advantage secretly gained by one of several compounding creditors.
94 - Repealed.
95 - Obligor’s duties, liabilities and disabilities.
96 - Saving of rights of bona fide purchasers.
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1 - Short title and extent.
2 - Application of Act.
3 - Definitions and interpretation.
4 - Overriding effect of Act.
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5 - Act not to apply to certain properties.
6 - Devolution of interest in coparcenary property.
7 - Devolution of interest in the property of a tarwad, tavazhi, kutumba, kavaru or illom.
8 - General rules of succession in the case of males.
9 - Order of succession among heirs in the Schedule.
10 - Distribution of property among heirs in class I of the Schedule.
11 - Distribution of property among heirs in class II of the Schedule.
12 - Order of succession among agnates and congnates.
13 - Computation of degrees.
14 - Property of a female Hindu to be her absolute property.
15 - General rules of succession in the case of female Hindus.
16 - Order of succession and manner of distribution among heirs of a female Hindu.
17 - Special provisions respecting persons governed by marumakkattayam and aliyasantana laws.
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18 - Full blood preferred to half blood.
19 - Mode of succession of two or more heirs.
20 - Right of child in womb.
21 - Presumption in cases of simultaneous deaths.
22 - Preferential right to acquire property in certain cases.
23 - Omitted.
24 - Omitted.
25 - Murderer disqualified.
26 - Convert’s descendants disqualified.
27 - Succession when heir disqualified
28 - Disease, defect, etc., not to disqualify
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29 - Failure of heirs.
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30 - Testamentary succession
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31 - Repealed.
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1 - Short title.
2 - Extent of Act.
3 - Interpretation-clause.
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4 - Matrimonial jurisdiction of High Courts to be exercised subject to Act. Exception.
5 - Enforcement of decrees or orders made heretofore by Supreme or High Court.
6 - Pending suits.
7 - [Omitted.].
8 - Extraordinary jurisdiction of High Court.
9 - Reference to High Court.
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10 - Grounds for dissolution of marriage.
10A - Dissolution of marriage by mutual consent.
11 - Adulterer to be co-respondent.
12 - Court to be satisfied of absence of collusion.
13 - Dismissal of petition.
14 - Power to Court to pronounce decree for dissolving marriage.
15 - Relief in case of opposition on certain grounds.
16 - Decrees for dissolution to be nisi.
17 - Power of High Court to remove certain suits.
17A - [Omitted.].
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18 - Petition for decree of nullity.
19 - Grounds of decree.
20 - [Omitted.].
21 - Children of annulled marriage.
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22 - Bar to decree for divorce a mensa et toro; but judicial separation obtainable by husband or wife
23 - Application for separation made by petition.
24 - Separated wife deemed spinster with respect to after-acquired property.
25 - Separated wife deemed spinster for purposes of contract and suing.
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26 - Decree of separation obtained during absence of husband or wife may be reversed.
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27 - Deserted wife may apply to court for protection.
28 - Court may grant protection-order.
29 - Discharge or variation of orders.
30 - Liability of husband seizing wife’s property after notice of order.
31 - Wife’s legal position during continuance of order.
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32 - Petition for restitution of conjugal rights.
33 - Answer to petition.
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34 - Omitted.
35 - [Omitted.].
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36 - Alimony pendente lite.
37 - Power to order permanent alimony.
38 - Court may direct payment of alimony to wife or to her trustee.
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39 - Omitted.
40 - Inquiry into existence of ante-nuptial or post-nuptial settlements.
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41 - Power to make orders as to custody of children in suit for separation.
42 - Power to make such orders after decree.
43 - Power to make orders as to custody of children in suits for dissolution or nullity.
44 - Power to make such orders after decree or confirmation.
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45 - Code of Civil Procedure to apply.
46 - Forms of petitions and statements.
47 - Petition to state absence of collusion.
48 - Suits on behalf of lunatics.
49 - Suits by minors.
50 - Service of petition.
51 - Mode of taking evidence.
52 - Competence of husband and wife to give evidence as to cruelty or desertion.
53 - Power to close doors.
54 - Power to adjourn.
55 - Enforcement of, and appeals from, orders and decrees.
56 - Appeal to the Supreme Court.
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57 - Liberty to parties to marry again.
58 - English clergyman not compelled to solemnize marriages of persons divorced for adultery.
59 - English Minister refusing to perform ceremony to permit use of his Church.
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60 - Decree for separation or protection-order valid as to persons dealing with wife before reversal.
61 - Bar of suit for criminal conversation.
62 - Power to make rules.
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1 - Short title.
1A - Definition.
2 - Execution under power-of-attorney.
3 - Payment by attorney under power, without notice of death, etc., good.
4 - Deposit of original instruments creating powers-of-attorney.
5 - Power-of-attorney of married women.
6 - [Repealed.].
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