No. 18
Tanzania Communications
1993 37
(b) assaults or intentionally obstructs or incites anyone to obstruct
or impede's an officer or employee of a public telecommunication
licensee or a public postal licensee in the performance of his
duties, commits an offence,
69 Any person who Intending(1) to prevent or obstruct the transmission or delivery of any message;
(2) to commit mischief,
damages, removes, tampers with or touches any installation or plant or
any part thereof used for telecommunications services belonging to a
public telecommunication licensee, or interferes with the radiocommunication service or system of a public telecommunication licensee commits
an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding three
hundred thousand shillings, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding
three years or to both such fine and imprisonment.
70.-(1) Any officer., employee or agent of a public telecommunication licensee who(a) Willfully secretes, makes away with or alters any message or record
of any message; or
(b) except in obedience to an order under the hand of the Minister
or the direction of a court, wilfully omits to transmit or intercepts
or acquaints himself with or detains any message or part thereof
or deliberately causes a call or connection to be disconnected or
not to be connected, commits an offence and shall be liable on '
conviction 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.
(2) Subsection (1) (b) shall not apply(a) to any act or thing done by an officer, employee or agent of a
public telecommunication licensee for or in connection with the
installation of a telecommunication line, equipment or the operation or maintenance of a telecommunication system; or
(b) to the tracing of the origin of any telephone call at the request
of the subscriber of a telecommunication service.
71. Any person who dishonestly uses or permits another person to
use any telecommunication service provided by a public telecommunication licensee with intent to avoid payment of any charge applicable to
the provision of that service commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding three hundred thousand shillings, or to
imprisonment for a term not exceeding three (3) years or to both such
fine and imprisonment.
72. Any person who transmits or causes to be transmitted a message
which he knows to be false or fabricated commits an offence and shall
on conviction be liable-
Intertional
damage to
installation or
plant used
for telecommunications
Offenses
by officer,
employee
or agent
of public
telecommunication
licensees,
Fraudulent use of
telecommunication
system
Sending
false message