Consumer Protection Act : Jurisdiction of the National Commission. Indian Bare Acts :

Consumer Protection Act,1986

Act No : 68

Section : Jurisdiction of the National Commission.

21. Jurisdiction of the National Commission. Subject to the other
provisions of this Act, the National Commission shall have
jurisdiction--

(a) to entertain--

(i) complaints where the value of the goods or services
and compensation, if any, claimed exceeds rupees 3*[twenty
lakhs]; and

(ii) appeals against the orders of any State
Commission; and

(b) to call for the records and pass appropriate orders in
any consumer dispute which is pending before or has been decided
by any State Commission where it appears to the National
Commission that such State Commission has exercised a
jurisdiction not vested in it by law, or has failed to exercise a
jurisdiction so vested, or has acted in the exercise of its
jurisdiction illegally or with material irregularity.