The Deputy Speaker of the Ugandan parliament, Thomas Tayebwa, has tasked the Minister of State for Trade Industry and Cooperatives (Industry), David Bahati, to honour his earlier pledge and table the Consumer Protection Bill.
The Bill aims at setting standards for the quality, safety, and reliability of goods and also provides remedies in case of non-compliance with those standards as well as prohibiting unfair trade practices.
Tayebwa recalled that it was after the minister’s intervention that parliament excluded consumer protection-related matters while processing the Competition Act, 2023, recently assented to by PresYoweri Museveni alongside four other Bills.
“Hon. Minister, remember we discussed the Consumer Protection Bill and you said it should be different from the Competition Bill – we need you to table the Bill,” Tayebwa said in his communication during the plenary sitting on Tuesday.
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