law: The Competition Act, 2002 
  Chapter II
  
  Prohibition of Certain Agreements, Abuse of Dominant Position and Regulation of
  
  Combinations Prohibition of Agreements
  3. Anti-competitive
  
  agreements.-
  1.  
  
    No
  
  enterprise or association of enterprises or person or association of persons
  
  shall enter into any agreement in respect of production, supply, distribution,
  
  storage, acquisition or control of goods or provision of services, which causes
  
  or is likely to cause an appreciable adverse effect on competition within
  
  India.
  2.  
  
    Any
  
  agreement entered into in contravention of the provisions contained in
  
  sub-section (1) shall be void.
  3.  
  
    Any
  
  agreement entered into between enterprises or associations of enterprises or
  
  persons or associations of persons or between any person and enterprise or
  
  practice carried on, or decision taken by, any association of enterprises or
  
  association of persons, including cartels, engaged in identical or similar
  
  trade of goods or provision of services, which- 
  a.   directly or
  
  indirectly determines purchase or sale prices;
  b.   limits or controls
  
  production, supply, markets, technical development, investment or provision of
  
  services;
  c.   shares the market or
  
  source of production or provision of services by way of allocation of
  
  geographical area of market, or type of goods or services, or number of
  
  customers in the market or any other similar way;
  d.   directly or
  
  indirectly results in bid rigging or collusive bidding, shall be presumed to
  
  have an appreciable adverse effect on competition: Provided that nothing
  
  contained in this sub-section shall apply to any agreement entered into by way
  
  of joint ventures if such agreement increases efficiency in production, supply,
  
  distribution, storage, acquisition or control of goods or provision of
  
  services.
  Explanation.- For the
  
  purposes of this sub-section, "bid rigging" means any agreement,
  
  between enterprises or persons referred to in sub-section (3) engaged in
  
  identical or similar production or trading of goods or provision of services,
  
  which has the effect of eliminating or reducing competition for bids or
  
  adversely affecting or manipulating the process for bidding.
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  4.  
  
    Any
  
  agreement amongst enterprises or persons at different stages or levels of the
  
  production chain in different markets, in respect of production, supply,
  
  distribution, storage, sale or price of, or trade in goods or provision of
  
  services, including- 
  a.   tie-in arrangement;
  b.   exclusive supply
  
  agreement;
  c.   exclusive
  
  distribution agreement;
  d.   refusal to deal;
  e.   resale price
  
  maintenance, shall be an agreement in contravention of sub-section (1) if such
  
  agreement causes or is likely to cause an appreciable adverse effect on
  
  competition in India.
  Explanation.-For the
  
  purposes of this sub-section,- 
  a.   "tie-in
  
  arrangement" includes any agreement requiring a purchaser of goods, as a
  
  condition of such purchase, to purchase some other goods;
  b.   "exclusive
  
  supply agreement" includes any agreement restricting in any manner the
  
  purchaser in the course of his trade from acquiring or otherwise dealing in any
  
  goods other than those of the seller or any other person;
  c.   "exclusive
  
  distribution agreement" includes any agreement to limit, restrict or
  
  withhold the output or supply of any goods or allocate any area or market for
  
  the disposal or sale of the goods;
  d.   "refusal to
  
  deal" includes any agreement which restricts, or is likely to restrict, by
  
  any method the persons or classes of persons to whom goods are sold or from
  
  whom goods are bought;
  e.   "resale price
  
  maintenance" includes any agreement to sell goods on condition that the
  
  prices to be charged on the resale by the purchaser shall be the prices
  
  stipulated by the seller unless it is clearly stated that prices lower than
  
  those prices may be charged.
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  5.  
  
    Nothing
  
  contained in this section shall restrict- 
   
  
   i.  
  
    the
  
  right of any person to restrain any infringement of, or to impose reasonable
  
  conditions, as may be necessary for protecting any of his rights which have
  
  been or may be conferred upon him under- 
  a.   the Copyright Act, 1957
  
  (14 of 1957);
  b.   the Patents Act, 1970
  
  (39 of 1970);
  c.   the Trade and
  
  Merchandise Marks Act, 1958 (43 of 1958) or the Trade Marks Act, 1999 (47 of
  
  1999);
  d.   the Geographical
  
  Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999 (48 of 1999);
  e.   the Designs Act, 2000
  
  (16 of 2000);
  f.   the Semi-conductor
  
  Integrated Circuits Layout-Design Act, 2000 (37 of 2000);
   
  
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   ii.  
  
    the
  
  right of any person to export goods from India to the extent to which the
  
  agreement relates exclusively to the production, supply, distribution or
  
  control of goods or provision of services for such export. Prohibition of abuse
  
  of dominant position