The National Housing Corporation Act

This section repeals the National Housing Corporation Act and the Acquisition of Buildings Act.

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Jurisdiction: Tanzania
Instrument: Act or statute
Citation: The National Housing Corporation Act
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Language: en
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This section repeals the National Housing Corporation Act and the Acquisition of Buildings Act. Some existing directions and rules continue to apply, pending proceedings continue with the Corporation in place of the Registrar, and the Corporation may finish certain things started by the Registrar before the effective date. The Minister may allow certain former occupants or workers of the Registrar to deal with the house, work, or related things after the effective date, if the Board recommends it and the Minister is satisfied special circumstances make it just and equitable. This section sets out the Board’s membership and who appoints its members and Secretary. The members must elect one of their number as Vice-Chairman of the Board.

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42
Repeal
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AI-assisted research summary: This section repeals the National Housing Corporation Act and the Acquisition of Buildings Act.

42. [Repeals the National Housing Corporation Act and the Acquisition of Buildings Act.]
43
Savings
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AI-assisted research summary: Some existing directions and rules continue to apply, pending proceedings continue with the Corporation in place of the Registrar, and the Corporation may finish certain things started by the Registrar before the effective date.

43. Notwithstanding the repeal of the repealed Acts- (a) all directions given and all rules made under the repealed Acts in relation to the Registrar or to the Corporation and which are in force on the effective date shall be deemed to be directions given or, as the case may be, rules made under this Act by the relevant authority, and shall remain in force until revoked by directions given or regulations made under this Act; (b) any proceedings pending immediately before the effective date to which the Registrar or its representative was a party on account of any matter relating to any of the houses, buildings or other assets or liabilities transferred by this Act to the Corporation shall be continued as if the Corporation were a party to it instead of the Registrar or its representative, as the case may be; (c) where anything has been commenced by or under the lawful authority of the Registrar immediately before the effective date and such thing is within the powers of the Corporation or was done in relation to any of the houses, buildings or other assets or liabilities referred to in this Act, such thing may be carried on and completed by the Corporation. Transitional provisions
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Transitional provisions
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AI-assisted research summary: The Minister may allow certain former occupants or workers of the Registrar to deal with the house, work, or related things after the effective date, if the Board recommends it and the Minister is satisfied special circumstances make it just and equitable.

44.–(1) Notwithstanding any provision contained in this Act to the contrary, the Minister may, on the recommendation of the Board and upon being satisfied that special circumstances exist which make it just and equitable to do so, permit any person who was employed, permitted, or who was a tenant of the Registrar, to deal in any manner, after the effective date with the house, work or other things involved, upon such conditions as the Minister may prescribe. (2) [Omitted.] 185 ©2025 Government of Tanzania. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or distributed without permission of OAG. THE NATIONAL HOUSING CORPORATION ACT [CAP. 295 R.E. 2023] SCHEDULE (Made under section 5(2)) BOARD Composition of Board Vice-Chairman Disqualification Tenure of office Casual vacancies

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1
Short title
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AI-assisted research summary: This section sets out the Board’s membership and who appoints its members and Secretary.

1.–(1) The Board shall consist of- (a) a Chairman, who shall be appointed by the President; (b) not less than five not more than seven other members, who shall be appointed by the Minister. (2) In appointing members, account shall be taken of a persons’ knowledge, experience and outlook in matters relating to the business of housing, building contractors and otherwise. (3) The Board may appoint any member of the Board or any employee of the Corporation to be the Secretary of the Board.
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Interpretation
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AI-assisted research summary: The members must elect one of their number as Vice-Chairman of the Board.

2. The members shall elect one of their number to be the Vice -Chairman of the Board, and any member elected as Vice-Chairman shall, subject to his continuing to be a member, hold office for a term of one year from the date of his election, and shall be eligible for re-election.
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Continued establishment of Corporation
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AI-assisted research summary: A person cannot be appointed as a member if of unsound mind or if convicted of fraud/dishonesty with a substantive prison sentence; a member also loses office if those disabilities arise or if absent from the United Republic for over 12 months.

3.–(1) A person shall not be appointed a member- (a) where he is of unsound mind; or (b) where he has been convicted of an offence involving or necessarily implying fraud or dishonesty and has suffered a substantive sentence of imprisonment for it. (2) A member shall become disqualified to retain and shall, ipso facto cease to hold his office as such member if he shall become subject to any of the disabilities set out in subparagraph (1) or if he is absent from the United Republic for a period exceeding twelve months.
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Functions of Corporation
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AI-assisted research summary: A member normally serves for the term set in the appointment instrument, or for three years if no term is set, may resign by written notice, and is eligible for re-appointment.

4.–(1) A member shall, unless his appointment is sooner terminated by the appointing authority, or he ceases in any other way to be a member, hold office for the period specified by the appointing authority in the instrument of his appointment or, if no period is so specified for a period of three years from the date of his appointment, and shall be eligible for re-appointment. (2) A member may at any time resign his office by giving notice in writing addressed to the appointing authority, and from the date specified in the notice or, if no date is so specified, from the date of the receipt of the notice by the appointing authority, he shall cease to be a member.
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Board
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AI-assisted research summary: If a board member stops being a member before the end of their term, the Minister may appoint someone else to take that place.

5. Where a member ceases to be a member before the normal expiration of his term of office, the Minister may appoint another person in his place to hold office until the time when such first-named person’s term of office would have expired had he not so ceased to be a member. 186 ©2025 Government of Tanzania. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or distributed without permission of OAG. THE NATIONAL HOUSING CORPORATION ACT [CAP. 295 R.E. 2023] Meetings Quorum, procedure and decision of Board Minutes of meetings Vacancies, etc., not to invalidate proceedings Board may regulate its own procedure
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Minister may direct Corporation
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AI-assisted research summary: The Board must meet at least once every three months; the Chairman or Vice-Chairman can call special meetings and must preside over meetings, with members present appointing a presiding member if both are absent.

6.–(1) The Board shall ordinarily meet for the transaction of business at the times and at the places decided upon the Board, but shall meet at least once every three months. (2) The Chairman, or in his absence the Vice-Chairman, may at any time call a special meeting of the Board, and shall call a special meeting upon a written request by a majority of the members in office. (3) The Chairman, or in his absence the Vice-Chairman, shall preside at every meeting of the Board; and in the absence of both the Chairman and the Vice-Chairman the members present shall appoint one of their number to preside over the meeting.
7
Orders and directions of Corporation
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AI-assisted research summary: The Board needs five members for a quorum. If votes are tied, the chair has a casting vote. The Board may also decide without a meeting by circulating papers and getting written views from a majority of members, but any member can require the decision to be deferred to a meeting.

7.–(1) The quorum at any meeting of the Board shall be five. (2) Questions proposed at a meeting of the Board shall be decided by a majority of the votes of the members present and voting and in the event of an equality of votes the person presiding shall have a second or casting vote. (3) Notwithstanding subparagraph (2), a decision may be made by the Board without a meeting by circulation of relevant papers among the members, and the expression of the views of the majority of the members in writing, but any member shall be entitled to require that the decision be deferred and the subject matter be considered at a meeting of the Board.
8
Housing inquiries by Corporation
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AI-assisted research summary: The Board must keep minutes of its meetings, confirm them at the next meeting, and the meeting chairman must sign them.

8.–(1) The Board shall cause to be recorded and kept minutes of all proceedings of its meetings, and the minutes of each meeting shall be confirmed by the Board at the next meeting and signed by the Chairman of the meeting. (2) When confirmed pursuant to subparagraph (1), the minutes shall be prima facie evidence in any court or inquiry that the proceeding as recorded in the minutes were the proceedings and decision of that meeting.
9
Power to contract, etc
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AI-assisted research summary: The board may act even if there is a vacancy in its membership, subject to the quorum rule in paragraph 7(1).

9.–(1) Subject to paragraph 7(1) as to quorum, the board may act notwithstanding any vacancy in the membership. (2) The validity of any act or other proceeding of the Board shall not be affected by any vacancy among its members, or by any defect in the appointment of any of them.
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Access to valuation roll
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AI-assisted research summary: The Board may regulate its own procedure, subject to this Schedule and any directions from the Minister.

10. Subject to the provisions of this Schedule and to any directions given by the Minister, the Board may regulate its own procedure. 187 ©2025 Government of Tanzania. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or distributed without permission of OAG. ©2025 Government of Tanzania. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or distributed without permission of OAG.

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