Court stops compulsory registration at the CPC

A Federal High Court has ruled that the Consumer Protection Council’s (CPC) imposition of compulsory registration on Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association’s (NECA) member-companies’ products and services with the commission is illegal, unlawful and ultra vires the powers conferred on the Council by its enabling Act.

The CPC and its agents were also restrained from further imposing compulsory registration on NECA’s members’ goods and services with it and from further harassing, intimidating or sealing-up the offices of NECA’s members on account of the non-registration of NECA’s members’ products and services with it.

It would be recalled that NECA, the umbrella body for Organised Private Sector and the Voice of Business in Nigeria, had approached the Federal High Court for interpretation on the extent of the powers of the CPC.