Rex v Singh
Rex v Singh (Criminal Appeal No. 379 of 1946) [1947] EACA 77 (1 January 1947)
The court held that the appellant's act of placing a modified ambulance body, with wheels removed and the back taken out to serve as a shed, on his plot within the municipal area constituted the erection of a new building within the meaning of By-law 106 of the Nairobi Municipality By-laws, 1944. The court reasoned that the structure, having three sides, a floor, and a roof, was reasonably considered a building. The by-law's scope was not limited to buildings for human habitation, and the appellant's lack of explanation for the structure's purpose further supported the inference that it was i…
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- Municipal By Laws
- Erection Of Buildings
- Definition Of Building
- Unauthorized Construction