Protect and promote
The Consumers’ Institute, which completed 21 years of operations this July, began from humble beginnings in 1959 as the Consumer Service set up under the wing of the then Department of Industries and Commerce (now Trade and Industry). In 1963, the it changed its name to the Consumers’ Institute more adequately to describe the nature of its work. The Consumer Council Act, 1966, came into force
on April 1, 1977, from which date the Institute has been independent of departmental control. It is now a statutory, non-pro-fit-making organisation. The act sets out its function as:
“To protect and promote the interests of consumers of goods and services by whatever lawful means appear to it expedient, and by so doing to encourage the improvement and development of industry and commerce.”
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