(1.) This instant writ petition has been filed with the following substantive prayers:
(2.) It is vide notification dated 30.9.2015 that the State Government amended the Himachal Pradesh Private Medical Educational Institutions (Regulation of Admission and Fixation of Fee) Act, 2006 (Act No. 24 of 2015). The amendment carried in section 3 reads thus:
(3.) However, at the time of arguments, the petitioners have confined their arguments only to the amendment carried in sub-section (6-a) of section 3.