 financial memorandumclause 2 of the bill defines a registered consumers' association as per the provision made in clause 3 of the bill, an individual consumer as well | as the registered consumers' associations will have a statutory right to make a complaint and to be heard as regards any restrictive trade practice by which he or the association is aggrieved similarly, as per clause 5 of the bill, such a consumer or association would have a statutory right to make a complaint and to be heard as regards any unfair trade practice by which he or the association is affected at present, the commission is not bound to entertain any such complaint or to institute formal enquiry proceedings in order to give real protection to the consumer, it is also not expected that the consumer from all over the country should travel to delhi to pursue their complaints and to be present to participate in the proceedings at delhi since large number of individual complaints are expected to be filed and these complaints are to be converted into formal enquiries, it will be necessary for the commission to set up benches, at least to begin with, at delhi, bombay, calcutta and madras it may also be necessary for the commission to have circut benches to sit at other state headquarters as per present section 5 of the act, the commission may consist of the chairman and eight other members however, the commission's present strength is the chairman and three members within the maximum strength already fixed under section 5, it is proposed to appoint five additional members with necessary complement of staff including the staff required for the court room the recurring and non-recurring expenditure from the consolidated fund of india which would be involved in giving effect to the provisions of the billi, if it is enacted, would be of the order of rs 51,30,000 as detailed below: 1 recurring expenditure on pay and allowances and contingencies —rs 43,30,000 2 non-recurring expenditure for accommodation, furniture, stationery, etc —rs 8,00,000  : total —rs 51,30,000 2 the bill, if enacted, will not involve any other expenditure of a recurring or non-recurring nature memorandum regarding delegated legislationclause (2) of the bill proposes to insert a definition of registered consumers' association the said association will be recognised by the central goverriment on an application made to it in such form and in such manner as may be laid down by the rules made under the monopolies and restrictive trade practices act, 1969 2 the matters in respect of which the said rules may be made are essentially matters of detail or procedure the delegation of legislative power is, therefore, of a normal character{ moltaiion cet olmmod mor ot muthatomem     = :10,the commission may inquire into— ic (a) any restrictive trade practice— inquiry into mono polistic (4) upon receiving a complaint of facts which constitute such _practice from any trade or consumers' association having a mem- _ bership of not less than twenty-five persons or from twenty-five 'or more consumers, or |           | a    ||------------|------|| or         | res- || trictive   |      || trade      |      || practices  |      || by         | com || mission,   |      || investiga- |      || tion       | by   || director   |      || general    |      || before     |      || issue      | of   || process    | in   || certain    |      |11 (1) where any complaint is received by the commission under subclause (i) of clause (a) of section 10, it may, before issuing any process requiring the attendance of the person complained against, by an order, require the director general to make, or cause to be made, a preliminary investigation in such manner as it may direct and submit a report to the commission to enable it to satisfy itself as to whether or not the complaint requires to be inquired into cases  36b the commission may inquire into any unfair trade practice,—(a) upon receiving a complaint of facts which constitutes such practice from any trade or consumers' association having a five or more consumers; or inquiry into un fare trade practices by commission, (b) upon a reference made to it by the central government or a state government; | 8          ||------------|| investiga- |36c in respect of any unfair trade practice of which complaint is made under clause (a) of section 36b, the commission shall, before issuing any process requiring the attendance of the person complained against cause | tion     | by    ||----------|-------|| director |       || general  |       || before   | an    |a preliminary investigation to be made by the director general, in such manner as it may direct, for the purpose of satisfying itself that the com- issue of process in plaint requires to be inquired into certain @  ® % & cases 67 (1)     ® power to make rules,(2) in particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely:—  s e   (aa) the form in which an application shall be made to the central government under section 28 for the approval of any scheme of merger or amalgamation of an undertaking with any other undertaking; 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