good governance, rule of law and social justice enshrined in these Articles would have been followed. 53. Perhaps more importantly, then, is the jurisdiction of this Court with regard to a domestic entity’s compliance with the internal laws of Partner States or the lack thereof. Stated differently, this raises the question as to whether this Court can inquire into a domestic entity’s compliance with the internal laws of a Partner State (or the lack of it). It is now well settled law that this Court’s jurisdiction is restricted to the interpretation of Treaty provisions. See Article 27(1) of the Treaty, Attorney General of Kenya vs. The Independent Medical Legal Unit EACJ Appeal No. 1 of 2011 and Samuel Mukira Muhochi vs The Attorney General of the Republic of Uganda EACJ Ref. No. 5 of 2011. Conversely, the proviso to Article 27 does recognize the jurisdiction of organs of the Partner States. 54. That is not to say that this Court cannot intervene where it has been established before it that a Partner State has acted in breach of its own internal laws. On the contrary, this Court has held that such a Partner State would be in contravention of Articles 6(d) and 7(2) of the Treaty to the extent that it has violated the principles of good governance and rule of law. Indeed in the case of Samuel Mukira Muhochi vs The Attorney General of the Republic of Uganda (supra) this Court did rule that to the extent that section 3(1) of Uganda’s East African Community Act, 2002 domesticated and adopted the Treaty into the laws of Uganda, a breach of Treaty provisions would amount to a breach of the internal laws of Uganda. It was the Court’s finding that in declaring the Applicant therein a prohibited immigrant, Uganda had failed to follow its immigration laws and thus breached Articles 6(d) and 7(2) of the Treaty. However, the circumstances pertaining to the present Reference are distinctly different from those in the Samuel Mukira Muhochi case. In that case the Applicants therein challenged the provisions of the law REFERENCE No. 10 OF 2013 Page 27

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