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No. 12 Tanzania Communications. Regulatory Authority 2003 19 (4) The Minister may specify in a direction under section (3) a time within which the Authority shall submit its report following the inquiry and if so the Authority shall submit its report to the Minister within that time. (5) The Authority shall give notice of an inquiry by (a) publishing a notice in the Gazette and in a daily newspaper circulating generally in Tanzania specifying the purpose of the inquiry, the time within which submissions may be made to the Authority, the form in which submissions should be made, the matters the Authority would like the submissions to deal with and, in the case of an inquiry conducted at the direction of the Minister, the Minister's terms of reference; (b) sending written notice of the inquiry, including the information in paragraph (a), to (i) service providers known to the Authority whose interests the Authority considers are likely to be affected by the outcome of the inquiry; (ii) the Consumer Consultative Council; (iii) industry and consumer organizations which the Authority considers may have an interest in the matter. (iv) the Minister and other Ministers having interest in the matter. (6) The Minister shall, by order published in the Gazette, make rules for conducting inquiries under this section. Competition policy and contraventions of law on competition 19. - (1) In carrying out its functions and exercising its powers under this Act, and under sector legislation in relation to particular markets for regulated services, the Authority shall take into account (a) whether the conditions for effective competition exist in the market; (b) whether any exercise by the Authority is likely to cause any lessening of competition or additional costs in the market and is likely to be detrimental to the public; (c) whether any such detriments to the public are likely to outweigh any benefits to the public resulting from the exercise of the powers.

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