The colonial government agreed to hold elections to the Legislative Council in which seats were to be contested mainly along racial lines. There were seats for Europeans, Asians and Africans - hence the name Tripartite Election. Other conditions for eligibility for voting required a prospecting voter to have an annual income of four hundred pounds sterling, standard twelve education (later reduced to standard ten) and be employed in a specific post. Muslims being the ‘uneducated majority’ and hence most of them not employed in what could be considered ‘specific post’ were therefore not legible to vote. As the election conditions stood, Sheikh Hassan bin Ameir himself a prolific author and no doubt educated by all standards, could not vote or be voted into the Legislative Council had he wanted to contest. The Tripartite Election was therefore seen as colonial machinations to prevent a peoples’ leadership from coming to power.
Ingawa Sheikh Hassan alikuwa ameshapea na kuwa mwalimu lakini alikuwa hajasita na kusoma sio kwa kujisomesha mwenyewe tu lakini ilikuwa yupo tayari kwenda popote pale panapotolewa elimu kwenda kujifunza, ndipo alipokuja Unguja Sheikh Abdulbari Al-Aziy kutoka Misri, Sheikh Hassan bin Ameir alikuwa mmmoja katika wanafunzi waliojiunga kwa kupata taaluma kwa mwalimu huyo, na kati ya mengi aliyoyasoma hapo ilikuwa pamoja na uandikaji wa khati, inasemekana Sheikh Hassan alikuwa na khati nzuri sana za Kiarabu kwa maandishi ya “nusha” na “rika”, vile vile alisoma masomo ya hesabu ambayo ni muhimu katika fani ya mirathi, mmoja aliyowahi kusoma kwake alifika kueleza kuwa “ulipokuwa ukiingia mlango wa mirathi kila mmoja akisikia raha kutokana na namna Shekhe alivyokuwa akimudu mada ya mirathi”.