Legislation on Consumer Protection against Misleading Advertisement: A Comparative Studies between Jordanian Legislation and Malaysia Consumer Protection Law 1999

Abstract

A misleading advertisement is the one, which does not provide true information about the product. It may comprise of one or more than one aspect which mislead the consumer’s such as deceptive price, wrong information, overstatement, etc. Therefore, it is must to set up regulation for this activity to protect consumers. The objectives this paper is to examine provisions legal available in Jordan such civil law 1976 in Jordan and the Jordanian Draft Law 2013 of consumer protection to control protect the consumer from misleading advertisements issue in Jordan. This paper will compare between the legal provision of Jordan and the Malaysian consumer protection legislations specifically in Consumer Protection Law 1999. In both countries, this comparative study will reveal the inadequacy or adequacy on the protection afforded to consumers on misleading advertising. According to the comparative study, the paper attempted benefit from the Consumer Protection Law 1999 of Malaysia concerning the protection of consumers against misleading advertising in order to provide guidance to Jordan in setting out legal for consumer against misleading advertisement to provide cover in issues such as information on advertisement as require under law, price, duty of advertiser, enforcement, punishment, and remedies.