84 No. 3
Electronic and Postal Communications
2010
utility or affect it injuriously by any means, commits an offence and
on conviction shall be liable to a fine not less than five hundred
thousand Tanzanian shillings or to imprisonment for a term of not
exceeding three months or to both.
(b) Offences and penalties relating to SIM card
Sale, transfer,
or disposal of
SIM cards
without
authority of
Network
Service
Licensee
Failure to
give
satisfactory
account of
mobile
telephone or
SIM card
126. Any person who is found in possession of any mobile
telephone or SIM - card in regard to which there is reasonable
suspicion that it has been stolen and is unable to give a satisfactory
account of such possession, commits an offence and is liable on
conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred thousand Tanzanian
shillings or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months.
Absence of
reasonable
cause for
believing
mobile
telephone or
SIM card
properly
acquired
127.-(1) Any person who in any manner acquires or
receives into his possession from any other person a stolen mobile
telephone or SIM card without having reasonable cause to believe
that at the time of such acquisition or receipt that mobile telephone
or SIM card was the property of the person from whom he acquires
or receives it or that person has been duly authorised by the owner
to deal with it or dispose of, is guilty of an offence.
125. Any dealer or person who sells or distributes any SIM
– cards without authorization of the appropriate Network Service
Licensee shall be guilty of an offence and be liable on conviction to
a fine of seven million Tanzanian shillings or to imprisonment for a
term of two years or to both.
(2) In the absence of evidence to the contrary which raises a
reasonable doubt, proof of such possession is sufficient evidence of
the absence of reasonable doubt.
(3) Any person who commits an offence under this section
shall on conviction be liable to a fine of seven million Tanzanian
shillings or to imprisonment a term of two years or to both.