28 No. 18
Extension
of sections
33,34,35,
36 and 37
Tanzania Communications
1993
(6) Every postal article opened under this Act and found to contain
any valuable or saleable enclosure shall, together with its contents, be
safely kept pending its disposition under this Section, and a list of any
such postal articles together with a memorandum of the contents thereof
shall be made and preserved.
(7) The detention, destruction or disposal under this Act of a postal
article or its enclosure shall not relieve any person from liability for any
offence under this Act or any other written law.
38. Section 33, 349 35, 36 and 37 shall apply to any article or thing
sent from outside the United Republic in like manner as to any article
or thing sent from within the United Republic.
39.-(1) The Commission may make rules as to the disposal of postal
articles which, for any reason, cannot be delivered. Such. articles are in
this Part referred to as ''undelivered postal articles''
(2) Rules made under subsection 1 may(a) prescribe the period during which undelivered postal articles at
a post office shall remain in that office;
(b) provide for the publication of lists of undelivered postal articles,
or of any class of undelivered postal articles;
(c) provide for the manner in which undelivered postal articles shall
be finally dealt with or disposed of.
Power to
40.-(l) The Commission may allow the licensee to carry out postal
provide
financial services on its own account or on behalf of government and
for postal non-government agencies and may make rules as to such services.
financial
services
(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoand
to ing power, such rules may prescribe for the scope and extent of such
make
financial services.
rules
thereon
(3) For the purposes of this section, ''postal financial services'' shall
include money orders, postal orders, postal drafts, postal cheques, postal
travelers" cheques, giro, cash-on-delivery, collection of bills, savings
service, subscription to newspapers and periodicals and any other form
of financial service.
Special
41.-(1) The President may, on occurrence of any event which gives
'powers in rise to an emergency, or in the interest of national or public security,
ernergenc
y or in the authorise the Commission tonational
(a) suspend the licence of any licensee and take temporary possession
or public
of any post office or telecommunication facility under the control
interest
of any such licensee;
(b.) withdraw either totally or partially the use of any postal service
or telecommunication facility from any person or class of persons
or from the public at large; or
(c) order that any postal article or class of postal articles or any letter
or class of letters to or from any person or class of persons or
relating to any specific subject shall not be conveyed or shall be
intercepted or detained and delivered to any officer mentioned
Power to
make
rules as to
disposal
of undelivered
postal articles