The Competition Act, 2002
34. Power to award
compensation.-
1.
Without
prejudice to any other provisions contained in this Act, any person may make an
application to the Commission for an order for the recovery of compensation
from any enterprise for any loss or damage shown to have been suffered, by such
person as a result of any contravention of the provisions of Chapter II, having
been committed by such enterprise.
2.
The
Commission may, after an inquiry made into the allegations mentioned in the
application made under sub-section (1), pass an order directing the enterprise
to make payment to the applicant, of the amount determined by it as realisable
from the enterprise as compensation for the loss or damage caused to the
applicant as a result of any contravention of the provisions of Chapter II
having been committed by such enterprise.
3.
Where
any loss or damage referred to in sub-section (1) is caused to numerous persons
having the same interest, one or more of such persons may, with the permission
of the Commission, make an application under that sub-section for and on behalf
of, o for the benefit of, the persons so interested, and thereupon, the
provisions of rule 8 of Order 1 of the First Schedule to the Code of Civil
Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908), shall apply subject to the modification that every
reference therein to a suit or decree shall be construed as a reference to the
application before the Commission and the order of the Commission thereon.