26 No. 18
Postage
stamps to
be used or
prepayment
Exemption from
postal
charges
Power to
make
rules as to
transmis-
sion by
post of
postal articles
Transmission by
post of
anything
injurious,
Tanzania Communications
1993
(c) date-stamps, slogan dies and other artifacts used in connection
with the production of philatelic stamps,
30.-(l) Postage stamps provided under section 29 shall be used for
the prepayment of postage or other fees or sums chargeable under this
Act in respect of postal articles, except where the Commission directs
that prepayment shall be made in some other way.
(2) The Commission may make rules for the use of postage stamps
as prepayment of fees or other sums chargeable under any written law
by any government agency for services rendered and for the recovery
of the revenue thereof from the licensee.
31.-(1) The Commission may make--rules as to the exemption of
certain classes of persons from postal charges on letter-post items and
from commissions, fees or other charges payable for services rendered.
(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may exempt letter-post items for charitable purposes from postal charges.
32.-G) The Commission may make rules as to the transmission by
post of postal articles.
(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may(a) provide for the performance of supplementary services in respect
of transmission by post of postal articles;
(b) prescribe the special charges or fees to be charged for the
supplementary services provided;
(c) prohibit the transmission by post of postal articles not specified
in section 33 or 34 or lay down special conditions on which articles,
not specified in section 33 or 34, may be transmitted by post;
(d) provide for the payment of compensation for the loss or damage
in course of transmission by post of postal articles, and the conditions under which such compensation may be paid and the limit
of the amount of such compensation.
(3) For the purposes of this section, supplementary services include
the registration, insurance and storage of postal articles, Poste Restante
and any other form of supplementary service.
33. -(1) No person shall send by post any article or thing which is
likely to injure any person or any postal article in the course of transmission by post.
(2) Except as otherwise provided by rules made under this Act and
etc., prosubject to such conditions as may be prescribed, no person shall send
hibited
by post any explosive, inflammable, dangerous, filthy, noxious or deleterious substance, any sharp instrument not properly protected, or any
living creature which is either noxious or likely to injure any person or
any postal article in course of transmission by post.
(3) Except under such rules as the Commission may make in this
behalf, no person shall send by post opium, morphine, cocaine or any
narcotic.