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7. The learned Advocate General has elaborated that though up to the year 2006 an entrance examination was conducted for regulating the admissions to MBBS course and other related professional courses, after the legislature has enacted Tamil Nadu Admission in Professional Educational Institutions Act,2006, Tamil Nadu Act 3 of 2007, after obtaining the assent of the President of India, making it very clear in its Section 7 that any admission made in violation of the provisions contained in the said Act 3 of 2007 would be rendered invalid, notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force. Thus, the Tamil Nadu Act 3 of 2007 was operating in this State ever since. As per Section 5 of the Tamil Nadu Act 3 of 2007, a normalisation method is provided for regulating the admissions of students drawn from various streams, with the result from the year 2007 onwards, admissions to various medical colleges in the State have been regulated, purely following the marks secured in the relevant subjects at 10+2 course duly applying the normalisation method, thereby causing no injustice to any segment of students, who pursue the qualifying examination of +2 course either from the State Board or the Central Board of Secondary Education or any other Board, whereas, by introduction of Section 10-D to the Act, the provisions contained in Section 5, read with Section 7 of the Tamil Nadu Act 3 of 2007, could not be operated for regulating the process of admission of MBBS/BDS courses. The learned Advocate General, hence, would submit that the State legislature has unanimously considered it desirable to protect the policy pursued by the State of Tamil Nadu hitherto, for securing admission equitably to students, based on +2 examination marks in the relevant subjects and, consequently, the State legislature has unanimously passed the Tamil Nadu Admission to MBBS and BDS Courses Bill,2017, (Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly Bill No.7 of 2017) on 01.02.2017, and the Governor of the State has reserved the Bill for the assent of the President under Article 254 (2) of the Constitution on 18.02.2017, as the field is now occupied by the Parliamentary enacement. The assent of the President to Bill No.7 of 2017 is still awaited.

17. Section 5 of the Tamil Nadu Act 3 of 2007 seeks to regulate the admission process to MBBS/BDS courses, based upon the marks secured in the relevant subjects at 10+2 course, after adopting the normalisation method. Section 10-D of the Act, which was brought into force on 24.05.2016, intends to regulate the admission process, based upon the merit ranking at NEET', but not upon the marks secured at 10 + 2 course. Thus, there was inconsistency in the matter of admission to MBBS course in between the Regulations framed by the Medical Council of India and Section 5 of the Tamil Nadu Act 3 of 2007. It is relevant to extract Section 5, which reads as under :