No. 3
Failure to
report loss or
theft of
mobile
telephone or
SIM card
Electronic and Postal Communications
2010
85
128. Any person who fails to report the loss, theft or
destruction of a mobile telephone or SIM card commits an offence.
(2) Whenever a person is charged with an offence under
sub-section (1) and it is proved that such person was, at the time,
the owner or authorised possessor of the mobile telephone or SIM
card alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed, proof that the
person has failed to produce such mobile telephone or SIM- card
within seven days of a written request by a police or other law
enforcement officer, shall, in the absence of evidence to the
contrary which raises reasonable doubt, be sufficient evidence that
the mobile telephone or SIM card has been lost, stolen or destroyed.
(3) Any person who commits an offence under this section
shall on conviction be liable to a fine of three hundred thousand but
not more than five hundred thousand Tanzanian shillings or to
imprisonment for a term of six months or to both.
Tampering
with mobile
telephones
and SIM card
129. Any person who, intentionally and unlawfully in any
manner(a) tempers, modifies, alters, reconfigures or interferes
with mobile telephone or SIM card or any part
thereof; and
(b) reverse engineers, decompiles, disassembles or
interferes with mobile telephone or SIM card, or any
part thereof,
commits an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of
thirty million Tanzanian shillings or to imprisonment for a term not
exceeding ten years or both.
Recording
sale of
mobile
telephone
and SIM
card
130.(1) Any person who sells or in any other manner
provides, any mobile telephone or SIM card to any other person,
natural or legal, without recording the particulars of that person as
required by section 102 of this Act, commits an offence and on
conviction shall be liable to a fine of three million Tanzanian
shillings or to imprisonment for a term of twelve months or to both.