CONSUMER AFFAIRS AUTHORITY
ACT, NO.9 OF 2003
PART 111
PROMOTION OF COMPETITION AND CONSUMER INTEREST

Clause 34.

1. The authority may either of its own motion or on a complaint or request made to it by any person, any organization of consumers or an association of traders. Carry out an investigation with respect to the prevalence of any anti-competitive practices.
2. It shall be the duty of the Authority to complete an investigation under subsection (1) within one hundred days of its initiation.

Clause 35.

For the purpose of section 34, an anti-competitive practice shall be deemed to prevail, where a person in the course of business, pursues a course of conduct which of itself or when taken together with a course of conduct pursued by person associated with him, has or is intended to have or is likely to have the effect of restricting , distorting or preventing competition in connection with the production, supply or acquisition of goods in Sri Lanka or the supply or securing of services in Sri Lanka.