The hearing of this application was conducted by way of written submissions. Mr. Mpoki of Mpoki & Associates, Advocates submitted for the applicants whereas Mr. Ladislaus Komanya, learned senior state attorney from the Office of Solicitor General, Mtwara, submitted on behalf of the three respondents. Before delving into the merits or otherwise of this application, I have, at this stage, to consider the concern by the learned senior state attorney that the applicants, in their submission, have gone beyond their grounds of prayers set out in the chamber summons and statement. It is true that the grounds relating to procedural impropriety and proportionality were not among the grounds raised in their application for certiorari in question. According to the chamber summons, the applicants are seeking judicial review of the respondent’s ministerial power of promulgating the 1st impugned Regulations in excess of powers, illegally and against the principles of natural justice, unreasonable, arbitrary and ambiguous. These grounds have been itemized in ground No. 1 (ultra vires), ground No. 2 (unreasonable, arbitrary and ambiguous), ground No. 3 (illegality and unreasonable), ground No. 4 (illegality), ground No. 5 (arbitrary), ground No. 6 (ambiguous), ground No. 7(arbitrary), ground No. 8 (against principles of natural justice). Although, the issue of procedural impropriety was not one of the grounds in both the chamber summons and statement of the applicants, li

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