30 No. 18
Tanzania Communications
1993
PART VIII
OFFENCES AND PENALTIES IN RELATION TO POSTAL SERVICES
Penalty
for
contravention
of sections
14 and 15
Penalty for
contravention
of section 33
and 34
Penalty
for defiling
or ining or
injuring
letter boxes
Penalty
for affixing
without
authority
anything
to, or disfiguring,
a post office
45. Any person who(a) conveys, otherwise than in accordance with the terms of a valid
licence, and letter or postal article as detailed under section 13
(1) of this Act;
(b) performs any service incidental to conveying, otherwise than in
accordance with the terms of a valid licence, any letter or postal
article as aforesaid;
(c) sends or tenders or delivers in order to be sent. otherwise than
in accordance with the terms of a valid licence, any letter or
postal article as aforesaid;
(d) makes a collection of letters or postal articles as aforesaid for
the purpose of sending them otherwise than in accordance with
the terms of a valid licence;
commits an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable, in the case of a
first offence to a fine not exceeding one hundred thousand shillings and
in the case of a subsequent offence, to a fine not exceeding one hundred
and fifty thousand shillings.
46. Any person who, in contravention of Section 33 or 34, sends or
tenders or makes over in order to be sent by post any postal article or
other thing commits an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a
fine not exceeding fifty thousand shillings or to imprisonment for a term
not exceeding one year, or to both such fine and imprisonment.
47. Any person who places in or against any letter box provided 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 injure any such letter box or its appurtenances
or contents, commits an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a
fine not exceeding thirty thousand shillings or to imprisonment for a
term not exceeding one year, or to both such fine and imprisonment.
48. Any person who, without due authority affixes any placard, adviertisement, notice, list, document, board or other thing in or on, or paints,
tars, or in any way disfigures, any post office, commits an offence and
shall, on conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty thousand
shillings.