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Orders of certiorari against the two respondents namely the Minister for Lands,Housing and Urban Development and the National Housing Corporation that.(a) the entire order of the Minister G. 41/92 be quashed.(b) The action of the National Housing Corporation increasing the rent for itspremises occupied by the applicants be quashed.The background to these proceedings may be easily stated. The secondrespondent, the National Housing Corporation, was established by an Act ofParliament, the National Housing Corporation Act No. 2/90. Section 11 of the Actprovided that the rents chargeable for the premises belongi to the corporationshall be sat by the Corporation subject to the provisions of the Rent RestrictionAct 1984. The Rent Restriction Act also created the housing Tribunals and theirappellate body, the Housing appeals Tribunal. Section 2 (1) (b) of the rentRestriction Act empowers the minister responsible for Lands, Housing and UrbanDevelopment, by order published in the Gazette with the approval of the NationalAssembly signified by a resolution, to exempt any premises or class of premisesfrom all or any of the provisions of the Rent Restriction Act. Using these powers,the Minister responsible for Lands, Housing and Urban Developmentpromulgated Government Notice No. 41 of 1992 exempting all premises inrespect of which a specified parastatal body is the lawful landlord from all theprovisions of the Rent restriction Act relating to the restriction on the amount ofrent that may be charged or collected by the specified parastatal body as thelandlord from any tenant occupying any part of these premises. The secondrespondent was among the specified parastatals. Following the publication of524

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