88 No. 3
Electronic and Postal Communications
2010
fine of not exceeding four hundred and fifty million Tanzanian
shillings for every day during which the offence continues.
Penalty for
transmission
of prohibited
articles
139. Any person who sends by post any postal article or
any thing which is injurious, indecent or prohibited under this Act,
commits an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not
less than five million Tanzanian shillings or to imprisonment for a
term not less than twelve month or to both.
Penalty for
damaging or
destroying
letter boxes
140. Any person who places in or against any letter box
provided public postal by the licensee for the reception of postal
articles any fire, match or light, or any explosive, dangerous, filthy,
noxious, or deleterious substance or any fluid, or commits a
nuisance in or against any such letter box, or does anything likely to
destroy or damage any such letter box or its appurtenances or
contents, commits an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a
fine of not less than five million Tanzanian shillings or to
imprisonment for a term not less than twelve months or to both.
Penalty for
affixing
without
authority
anything to,
or spoil the
appearance
of a post
office
141. Any person who, without due authority affixes any
placard, for advertisement, notice, list, documents, board or other
thing in or on, or paints, tars, or in any way spoils the appearance
of, any post office, commits an offence and shall, on conviction be
liable to a fine of not less than five million Tanzanian shillings.
Penalty for
unlawfully
detaining
mails or
opening mail
bags
142. Any person who, except under the authority of this
Act or in obedience to the order in writing of the Minister or the
Authority or the directions of a competent court, detains the mails
or any postal article in the course of transmission by post or on any
pretence opens a mail bag in course of transmission by post
commits of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine of
not less than five million Tanzanian shillings.