CONSUMER WELFARE FUND RULES, 1992

1.4 CONSUMER WELFARE FUND RULES, 1992 GSR 895(E), DATED 25-11-1992 In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (2) of section 37, read with section 12D of the Central Excises and Salt Act, 1944 (1 of 1994), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules, namely:— Short title and commencement. (1) These rules may be called the Consumer Welfare Fund Rules, 1992. They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette. Definitions. In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires, — (a) " Act " means the Central Excises and Salt Act, 1944 (1 of 1944), or, as the case may be, the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962); ' [(b) " Applicant " means any agency/organisation engaged in consumer welfare activities for a period of three years registered under the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956) or under any other law for the time being in force, including village/mandal/Samiti level cooperatives of consumers especially Women, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, or any industry as defined in the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (14 of 1947) recommended by the Bureau to be engaged for a period of five 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, or State Government, and includes a consumer for the purpose of reimbursing legal expenses as referred to in clause (d) of rule 8 of these rules;] (c) " Application " means an application in Form A-I, appended to these rules; (d) " Bureau " means the Bureau of Indian Standards constituted under the Bureau of Indian Standards Act, 1986 (63 of 1986); (e) " Central Consumer Protection Council " means the Central Consumer Protection Council established under sub-section (1) of

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