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Tanzania Communications
1993 33
(i) being entrusted with the preparation or custody of any document
relating to the public postal licensee, fraudulently prepares the
document incorrectly, or alters, or secretes or destroys the document; or
(j) being employed to Carry or deliver any mail bag or postal article
in the course of transmission by post does any act with intent to,
induce the belief that he has visited a place, or delivered a postal
article or mail bag, which he has not visited or delivered,
commits an offence and shall be liable on conviction for(i) an offence under paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d) to a fine not
exceeding three hundred thousand shillings or to imprisonment
for a term not exceeding 3 years or to both such fine and imprisonment; and
(ii) an offence under paragraph (c), (f), (g), (h), (i) or (j) to a fine
not exceeding one hundred thousand shillings or to imprisonment
for a term not exceeding one year or to both such fine and
imprisonment.
56. Any licensee who without lawful excuse fails to comply with any
term or condition expressed in the license commits an offence and shall, for
on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty thousand shillings
for every such breach.
57. Where an offence under this Act has been committed by a body
corporate, any person who at the time of the commission of the offence
was a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body
corporate or was purporting to act in such capacity shall, as well as such
body corporate, be deemed to have committed that offence unless he
proves that the offence was committed without his consent or connivance
and that he exercised all due diligence to prevent the commission of the
offence as he ought to have exercised, having regard to the nature of
his functions in that capacity and to all the circumstances.
58. Any person who contravenes any provision of this Act or any
rules made thereunder commits an offence and, if no penalty is expressly
provided shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding one
hundred thousand shillings.
59. Any person who abets the commission of any offence punishable
under this Act, or attempts to commit any offence so punishable, shall,
on conviction, be liable to the penalty provided for that offence,
60. Notwithstanding the provisions of any written law to the contrary,
the Court of Resident Magistrate may try any offence under this Act
or any rules made under it and may impose the full penalty for such
offence.
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