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(1) Every market committee shall be a body corporate by such name as the Director may specify by notification in the Official Gazette. It shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, may sue and be sued in its corporate name and shall be competent to acquire, hold, lease, sell or otherwise transfer property, to raise loans upon the security of its property in the manner and subject to the limits and other requirements including guarantees prescribed by rules, and to con- tract and to do all other things necessary for the purposes for which it is established. (2) A market committee shall be deemed to be a local authority within the meaning of clause (26) of section 3 of the Bombay General Clauses Act, 1904.