Under Sections 49(2) and 59(2) of the Consumer Protection Act, 2019, in addition to their other powers, the State Commission and the National Commission may respectively also:

Sections 49(2) and 59(2) of the Consumer Protection Act, 2019 respectively empower the State Commission and the National Commission, without prejudice to their other powers relating to disposal of complaints, to also declare any terms of a contract which are unfair to any consumer, to be null and void. This power operationalises the substantive definition of "unfair contract" under Section 2(46), which lists illustrative unfair terms such as unilateral termination rights, excessive security deposits, disproportionate breach penalties, and refusal to accept early debt repayment. Notably, this specific power to nullify unfair contract terms is conferred only upon the State and National Commissions, and not upon the District Commission, reflecting a legislative choice to reserve this more consequential contract-invalidating power for the higher tiers of the consumer redressal hierarchy.