Amendment of section 3.—

In section 3 of the Himachal Pradesh Medicare Service Persons and Medicare Service Institutions (Prevention of Violence and Damage to Property) Act, 2009 (hereinafter referred to as the “principal Act”), in sub-section (1), for the words “one year”, the words “three years” shall be substituted. For section 4 of the principal Act, the following section shall be substituted, namely :—

“4. Cognizance of offence.— (1) Any offence committed under this Act shall be cognizable and non-bailable.

(2) No court shall take cognizance of an offence punishable under this Act except upon a complaint in writing made by the officer authorized by the Government, by notification, in this behalf.”.