{"act":{"id":"consumer-protection-act-1986-uttarakhand","short_title":"The Consumer Protection Act, 1986","long_title":null,"act_number":"68","act_year":1986,"enact_date":null,"enforcement_date":null,"ministry":null,"department":null,"jurisdiction":"Uttarakhand","unit":"section","section_count":45,"in_force":true,"spent":false,"spent_note":null,"duplicate_of":null,"text_source":"ocr","scan_url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/scan/6583b6a4-2736-4795-9346-a36e50327afd.pdf","url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/consumer-protection-act-1986-uttarakhand/"},"unit":"section","section":{"number":"26","heading":"Dismissal of frivolous or vexatious complaints","text":"Where a complaint instituted before the District Forum, the State Commission or as the case may be, the National Commission, is found to be frivolous or vexatious, it shall, for reasons to be recorded in writing, dismiss the complaint and make an order that the complainant shall pay to the opposite party such cost, not exceeding ten thousand rupees, as may be specified in the order","html":"<p>Where a complaint instituted before the District Forum, the State Commission or as the case may be, the National Commission, is found to be frivolous or vexatious, it shall, for reasons to be recorded in writing, dismiss the complaint and make an order that the complainant shall pay to the opposite party such cost, not exceeding ten thousand rupees, as may be specified in the order</p>","words":66,"text_source":"ocr"},"classification":[],"instruments":[],"judgments":[],"corresponds_to":[],"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/consumer-protection-act-1986-uttarakhand/section/26/","note":null,"source_note":"Read from the Government's own scanned gazette with Azure Document Intelligence, then split into sections by their numbering. India Code publishes no text for this Act. The scan itself is mirrored into our own storage and served at /scan/6583b6a4-2736-4795-9346-a36e50327afd.pdf, so the reading here can be checked against the page it came from without depending on India Code's own copy staying where it is (it was at https://indiacode.gov.in/server/api/core/bitstreams/576915bc-cf55-443e-afbe-8d3e66e269f3/content).","judgments_note":"Judgment holdings are the ratio decidendi as extracted from the order by eCourts India, reproduced unaltered. Reported judgments only.","licence":"Published with commentary and other original matter under s.52(1)(q)(ii), Copyright Act 1957."}