No. 3
Electronic and Postal Communications
2010
89
Penalty for
willfully
retaining
postal articles
or mail bags
143. Any person who fraudulently retains or unlawfully
secretes or makes away with or keeps or detains or when required
by an authorised officer neglects or refuses to deliver up, any postal
article in the course of transmission by post which ought to have
been delivered to any other person, or a mail bag containing a
postal article, commits an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable
to a fine of not less five million Tanzanian shillings or
imprisonment for a term of not less than two years or to both .
Penalty for
unlawfully
diverting
letters
144.
Any person who, willfully and maliciously with
intent to injure any other person, either opens or causes to be
opened any letter which ought to have been delivered, or does any
act whereby the due delivery of a letter to any person is prevented
or impeded, commits an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable
to a fine not less than five million Tanzanian shillings or
imprisonment for a term of not less than six months or to both.
145. Any person who reveals, discloses or in any way
makes known the contents of any postal article opened under the
authority of this Act, except so far as may be necessary for the
purpose of returning the same or so far as may be authorised by the
Authority in writing, commits an offence and shall, on conviction,
be liable to a fine not less than five million Tanzanian shillings or
imprisonment for a term of not less than twelve months or to both.
Penalty for
unlawfully
disclosing
contents of
postal article
Penalty for
making
fictitious
stamps
146.(1) Any person who(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
makes or knowingly alters, deals in, hawks,
distributes, or sells any fictitious stamp or knowingly
uses for postal purposes any fictitious stamp;
has in his possession without lawful excuse any
fictitious stamp;
makes or without lawful excuse, has in his
possession, any dye plate, instrument or materials for
making any fictitious stamp; or
makes issues or sends by post any stamped or
embossed envelope, wrapper, card, form or paper in
imitation of one issued under the authority of the
licensee,