Consumer Protection Legislations: Their Application and Effective Factors

These days most countries enact comprehensive statutes incorporating regulations for consumer protection together with special rights and liabilities. Many of consumer law texts, unfortunately, are dedicated to explanation and interpretation of these acts and few embark on the description and interpretation of the necessary and substantial concepts in consumer protection, while these concepts determine the scope and limitation of the protection offered to consumers. Apart from economic factors, in legal aspect it can be said that the precise ambit of these acts depend on three elements and their interpretation, i. e., Consumer, Supplier and their Legal Relationship including Consent to Consumption. In this article, each of these elements will be considered with a comparative study. This study will help lawmakers for enacting a suitable and comprehensive act in the field of consumer protection. The present article is rendered in two parts: In the first part, in addition to the preface, the notion of Consumer and effective factors in it will be studied. In the second part, Supplier and consent to Consumption coupled with a brief conclusion will be presented.