Corporate India Blog - Product Liability Under Consumer Protection Act 2019 Today in our quick read blog (No. 05/2020-21), we continue to present an outlook on the Consumer Protection Act, 2019 (‘Act’ or ‘Act 2019’) which has come into force from July 20, 2020 (except the sections yet to be notified) thereby repealing the erstwhile Consumer Protection Act 1986. Our quick blog will feature this Act in phased manner for next few days. We have covered some portions of this Act in our previous blogs and today our emphasis is on the newly introduced concept of “product liability” under this Act: Product Liability: It means “the responsibility of a product manufacturer or product seller, of any product or service, to compensate for any harm caused to a consumer by such defective product manufactured or sold or by deficiency in services relating thereto”. This provision was very much the need of hour amidst the rising unscrupulous practices of producing low quality products or production wi...