JUDGMENT :

SAUMITRA DAYAL SINGH, J.

1. The present writ petition has been filed by NOIDA Employees' Association, a registered Trade Union having its head office at Noida and two others. It has been disclosed in the writ petition that the said Association has over 1400 officers/employees of New Okhla Industrial Development Authority (hereinafter referred to as the NOIDA) as its members and it has been duly authorised to institute the present writ petition on their behalf. Also, Shri Ashok Kumar Sharma, General Secretary of petitioner no.1 Association and also an employee of NOIDA is the petitioner no.2 while Shri Kushal Pal Singh, another employee of NOIDA is the petitioner no.3 in this writ petition. Initially, the writ petition had been filed seeking, by way of first relief, a declaration that Section 5-A of the Uttar Pradesh Industrial Area Development Act, 1976 (hereinafter referred to as the 'Act') as introduced by the Uttar Pradesh Industrial Area Development (Amendment) Act, 2017 (hereinafter referred to as the 'Amending Act'), would be applicable to officers and employee