32 No. 18
Tanzania Communications
1993
(3) Forfeiture under this section may be declared by a Magistrate's
Court, and all things forfeited shall be dealt with as the Court directs
and the proceeds (if any) thereof paid into the Consolidated Fund.
(4) Nothing in this section shall be held to exempt any person from
any punishment to which he may be liable under any other law.
Prohibittion of
false
notices as
to reception of letters
54. Any person who, without authority from the Commission, places
or maintains in or on any house, wall, door, window, box, pillar, or
other place, belonging to him or under his control, any of the following
words, letters, or marks:(a) The words ''post office'' or "postal office'';
(b) The words ''letter box'', accompanied with words, letters, or
marks, which signify or imply or may reasonably lead the public
to believe that it is a post office letter box;
(c) Any words, letters, or marks which signify or imply or may reasonably lead the public to believe that any house or place is a post
office, or that any box is a post office letter box commits an
offence and shall, on conviction. be liable to a fine not exceeding
thirty thousand shillings on first conviction and, on a subsequent
conviction, to a fine not exceeding three thousand shillings for
every day during which the offence so continues.,
Offenses
by
officers,
employee
or agent
of a public
postal
licensees
55. Any officer, employee or agent of a public postal licensee who(a) destroys or throws away any postal articles in the course of transmission by post or anything contained therein;
(b) steals or otherwise dishonestly misappropriates or secretes any
postal article in the course or transmission by post or anything
contained therein;
(c) except in obedience to an order under the hand of the Minister
or the direction of a court, wilfully opens or causes to be opened
contrary to his duty any mail bag or postal article in the course
of transmission by Post or wilfully detains or delays or causes to
be detained or delayed the mail bag or postal articles;
(d) issues or causes to be issued a document specified for use in
connection with the remittance of money with fraudulent intent;
(e) fraudulently puts any wrong official mark on a postal article;
(f) fraudulently alters, removes or causes to disappear any official
mark on a postal article;
(g) being entrusted with the delivery of any postal article, knowingly
demands or receives any sum of money which is not chargeable
under this Act;
(h) sends by post, or puts into any mail bag any postal article upon
which postage has not been paid or charged intending thereby
to defraud the public postal licensee of the postage on the postal
article;