No. 18
Tanzania Communications
1993 31
49. Any person who, except under the authority of this Act or in
obedience to the order in writing of the Minister or the Commission's
officer or the direction 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 not exceeding twenty thousand
shillings.
50. 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 imprisonment for a term not exceeding two-years or to a fine not exceeding one hundred thousand shillings
or to both such fine and imprisonment.
51. Any person who, wilfully 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 imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or to a fine not exceeding thirty thousand shillings or to
both such fine and imprisonment.
52. 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 commission in writing,
commits an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to imprisonment
for a term not exceeding one year, or to a fine not exceeding fifty
thousand shillings or to both such fine and imprisonment.
53.-(l) Any person who-.(a) makes or knowingly utters, deals in, hawks, distributes, or sells ing
any fictitious stamp or knowingly uses for postal purposes any
fictitious stamp;
(b) has in his possession without lawful excuse any fictitious stamp;
(c) makes, or without lawful excuse has in his possession, any die,
plate, instrument or materials for making any fictitious stamp; or
(d) 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,
commits an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not
exceeding one hundred thousand shillings or to imprisonment for a term
not exceeding two years or to both such fine and imprisonment.
(2) Any stamp, die, plate, instrument or materials found in the possession of any person in contravention of this Act may be seized and
shall be forfeited.
Penalty
for unlawfully detaining
mail or
opening
mail bags
Penalty
for willfully
retaining
postal
articles or
mail bags
Penalty
for unlawfully diverting
letters
Penalty
for unlawfully disclosing
contents
of postal
article
Penalty
for making
fictitious
stamps