Powers of the Authority, authentication and other provisions

(i) (a) Notwithstanding anything contained in other act or rules in force, the Authority shall be vested with the powers to issue Lay-Out permissions for the notified township projects or Local Planning Areas having total area one acre or more and shall have right to charge appropriate fees from the individuals, developers, firms, agencies, companies etc developing such projects for which the rates shall be notified by the Authority by way of Notifications as and when required. (b) Notwithstanding anything contained in other act or rules in force, the Authority shall also be vested with the powers to issue Building Permission to the structures on such Layouts mentioned in the section 28(ii)(f) in the Local planning areas as per the latest edition of Tripura Building Rules or any other rules or regulations or notifications made under this Act and shall have right to charge appropriate fees from the developers, firms, agencies, companies individuals, departments etc constructing such structures and also to issue occupancy certificates for such structures after completion as per the Tripura building rules. (c) Notwithstanding anything contained in other act or rules, the Authority shall have all the rights to impose fine, stop, prohibit, demolish the structures either completely or in part for which layout permission or building plan permission has not been obtained, deviations have been made to the non-permissible limits, standard norms for disaster prevention measures not followed or standard provisions of national building codes not observed or there is any threat to the safety or security to human life from such structures, following the provisions of the latest edition of Tripura Building Rules or any other rules or regulations or notifications made under this Act in the planning areas. If any fine remains unpaid, it will be recovered as arrears of land revenue. (d) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other acts and rules in force, the powers to issue diversion permissions, layout approval, building plan approval as per provisions of the latest edition of Tripura Building Rules within the Local planning areas notified by the State Government for development by the Authority shall solely vest in the Authority and no District Magistrate or Collector, no any Municipal or Local Body Authority or any other State Government or Officer shall interfere in exercise of such powers. (e) The rates of the fees and procedures of applications for layout permissions, building permissions, diversion permissions given by the Authority as mentioned shall be notified by the Authority from time to time. (f) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act all the draft Master Plans, Regional Plans, Township Schemes or Township Projects under prepared by the designated Planning Agency and at various stages thereafter shall be placed by the Authority before the Board for recommendation to the State Government for approval. (ii) All permissions, orders, decisions, notices and other documents of the Authority shall be authenticated under the signatures of an officer authorized by the Authority in this behalf.