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By Evarist Baimu Nyaga Mawalla - Home

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tenants, one enjoying legal protection the other without such legal protection. Thecorrect position is that G.N. 41/92 removed the appellants and all tenants of thesecond respondent from the protection of the housing Tribunals under the RentRestriction Act and as it were transferred them to the ordinary Courts. Wetherefore agree with the learned judge that GN. 41/92 does not violate theconcept of equality enshrined in Articles 13 of the Constitution. We wish also toaffirm the principle in the decision of this Court in Juthalal Velji Ltd. Vs. THBEstates Co. Ltd. Civil Appeal No. 11 of 1985 relied on by the learned judge andwhich is on all fours with the present case to be good law. Mr. Matata sought todistinguish Velji’s case from the present one of the basis that in Velji’s case therent was based on the economic value of the building based on the valuationreport which was produced in the High Court whereas in the present case therewas no such valuation. Secondly that the exemption in Velji Case was specific toa specific building. We do not think these distinctions are valid. The presence orabsence of a valuation. Report would be relevant when considering thereasonableness the can charge such rent secondly. Limiting the exemption tospecific buildings is in accord with the legistlation which directs that theexemption may be in respect of any premises or class of premises. In Velji’scase, they sought to exempt “Tecco Godowns” in Mikocheni Industrial Area as aclass of premises.In the second ground, the appellants complained that had the trial judge properlyinterpreted the order GN. 41/92 vis-à-vis the enabling provision (Section 2 (1) (b)529

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