Section 58
Chairperson, Members, Director General, Secretary, officers and other employees, etc., to be public servants
About this Act
An Act to provide, keeping in view of the economic development of the country, for the establishment of a Commission to prevent practices having adverse effect on competition, to promote and sustain competition in markets, to protect the interests of consumers and to ensure freedom of trade carried on by other participants in markets, in India, and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
1[58. Chairperson, Members, Director General, Secretary, officers and other employees, etc., to
be public servants.--The Chairperson and other Members and the Director General, Additional, Joint,
Deputy or Assistant Directors General and Secretary and officers and other employees of the Commission
and the Chairperson, Members, officers and other employees of the Appellate Tribunal shall be deemed,
while acting or purporting to act in pursuance of any of the provisions of this Act, to be public servants
within the meaning of section 21 of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860).]
Notes
1. Subs. by s. 45, ibid., for section 58 (w.e.f. (12-10-2007).