{"id":16756,"date":"2025-10-04T13:01:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T07:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/service-public.in\/?post_type=epkb_post_type_1&#038;p=16756"},"modified":"2025-10-04T13:01:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T07:31:27","slug":"rule-2-scope-and-applicability","status":"publish","type":"epkb_post_type_1","link":"https:\/\/service-public.in\/?epkb_post_type_1=rule-2-scope-and-applicability","title":{"rendered":"Rule 2: Scope and Applicability"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">2020-Consumer Protection E-Commerce Rule &#8211; Rule2<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(1) Save as otherwise expressly provided by the Central Government by notification, these rules shall apply to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(a) all goods and services bought or sold over digital or electronic network including digital products;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(b) all models of e-commerce, including marketplace and inventory models of e-commerce;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(c) all e-commerce retail, including multi-channel single brand retailers and single brand retailers in single or multiple formats; and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(d) all forms of unfair trade practices across all models of e-commerce:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Provided that these rules shall not apply to any activity of a natural person carried out in a personal capacity not being part of any professional or commercial activity undertaken on a regular or systematic basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-rule (1), these rules shall apply to a e-commerce entity which is not established in India, but systematically offers goods or services to consumers in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020-Consumer Protection E-Commerce Rule &#8211; Rule2 (1) Save as otherwise expressly provided by the Central Government by notification, these rules shall apply to: (a) all goods and services bought or sold over digital or electronic network including digital products; (b) all models of e-commerce, including marketplace and inventory models of e-commerce; (c) all e-commerce retail, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"epkb_post_type_1_category":[719],"epkb_post_type_1_tag":[],"class_list":["post-16756","epkb_post_type_1","type-epkb_post_type_1","status-publish","hentry","epkb_post_type_1_category-2020-consumer-protection-e-commerce-rules"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/service-public.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/epkb_post_type_1\/16756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/service-public.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/epkb_post_type_1"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/service-public.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/epkb_post_type_1"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service-public.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service-public.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/service-public.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/epkb_post_type_1\/16756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16757,"href":"https:\/\/service-public.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/epkb_post_type_1\/16756\/revisions\/16757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/service-public.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"epkb_post_type_1_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service-public.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fepkb_post_type_1_category&post=16756"},{"taxonomy":"epkb_post_type_1_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service-public.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fepkb_post_type_1_tag&post=16756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}