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i. Where the State Government is of opinion that the object of proper planning and development of a site of a new town will be best served by entrusting the work of development thereof to a Special Authority, instead to the Tripura Urban Planning and Development Authority, it may, by notification, constitute a Special Authority for that site to be called the New Town Planning and Development Authority for that area and thereupon, all the powers and functions of the Tripura Urban Planning and Development Authority relating to development of that site of the new town under this Act, shall be exercised and performed by such New Town Planning and Development Authority. ii. A New Town Planning and Development Authority constituted under sub-section (i), shall be a body corporate as well as local authority by the name aforesaid having perpetual succession and a common seal, with power to acquire, hold and dispose of property, both moveable and immovable and to contract, and by the said name sue and be sued. iii. A New Town Planning and Development Authority shall consist of a Chairman, such number of official & non official members notified by the State Government to that effect and a Commissioner who shall be appointed from amongst the officers of the Government of Tripura having such qualifications and experience as may be prescribed. iv. The provisions of this Act shall mutatis mutandis apply to a New Town Planning and Development Authority as they apply in relation to the Tripura Urban Planning and Development Authority, with the modification that references to the Tripura Urban Planning and Development Authority shall be constructed as references to a New Town Planning and Development Authority.