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The Department of Consumer Affairs in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution issued Consumer Protection (E-commerce) Rules 2020 (“E-commerce Rules 2020”), which came into force on 23 July 2020.
These Rules have been a topic of discussion for quite a while. The Government, in 2019, released the draft Consumer Protection (e-Commerce) Guidelines, 2018. These guidelines were to apply only to the Business-to-Consumer E-Commerce entities. Then in November 2019, the Central Government released the Consumer Protection (e-Commerce) Rules 2019. The E-commerce Rules 2020 can be said to be similar to the rules that have come before it, but, some new obligations have been imposed on the e-commerce entities.