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Court bars government agencies from enforcing two notices issued in 2025 targeting shisha traders and businesses. [File, Standard]
The High Court has lifted the shisha ban after declaring the continued enforcement of the prohibition unlawful and unconstitutional, effectively stopping the government from relying on regulations that had long ceased to have legal effect.
In a judgment delivered on Tuesday, Justice Bahati Mwamuye held that the legal foundation upon which the ban was enforced collapsed after the State failed to regularise the Public Health (Control of Shisha Smoking) Rules, 2017 within the timeline set by the High Court in an earlier case.
The court consequently barred government agencies from enforcing two notices issued in 2025 targeting shisha traders and businesses.
