Observing the origin of the source of conflict, Section 18 of the competition act and PNGRB’s preamble
inscribe the fundamental duty of the competition to sustain the economy of India and to curb practices
that affects competition adversely and to protect the interest of the consumers. But, it has always
remained numb with respect to sector specific regulation. With Section 60 of the competition act, the CCI
has a primary law in consistent with other acts in force. Adding to it, Section 62 of the act says to work in
conjunction with other statutes. On other hand, the preamble of PNGRB gives the board, the power to
regulate refining, processing, storage and transportation, marketing, distribution and sale of petroleum
consumer’s interest. Therefore, with the already existing Competition act, the PNGRB shall promote the
market’s competency. If given a glance to the intention of the legislature, with the general rule that the
later intention of the legislature should prevail over n earlier enactment. Section 11 and section 12 of the
PNGRB Act shall be responsible to maintain fair trade practices in competitive market. Ironically, the
legislation does not define as to what shall be constituted as unfair trading in the market. This results as
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