No.14

Cybercrimes

2015

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protection, management and control of data and other
resources in a critical information infrastructure.
(3) For the purpose of this section, “critical
information infrastructure” includes assets, devices,
computer system, or networks, whether physical or virtual
so vital to the United Republic of Tanzania that their
incapacitation affect national security or the economy and
social well being of citizens.
Offences
relating to critical
information
infrastructure

29. Where a person commits an offence under this
Act or any written law in relation to critical information
infrastructure, that person shall be liable, on conviction to a
fine not less than one hundred million shillings or three
times the loss occasioned or to imprisonment for a term not
less than five years or to both.
PART III
JURISDICTION

Jurisdiction

30.-(1) The courts shall have jurisdiction to try any
offence under this Act where an act or omission constituting
an offence is committed wholly or in part (a) within the United Republic of Tanzania;
(b) on a ship or aircraft registered in the United
Republic of Tanzania;
(c) by a national of the United Republic of Tanzania;
(d) by a national of the United Republic of Tanzania
who resides outside the United Republic of
Tanzania, if the act or omission would equally
constitute an offence under a law of that country;
or
(e) by any person, irrespective of his nationality or
citizenship, or location, when the offence is:

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