Labda kwanza tujiulize hii idara ya usalama wa taifa ilianzishwa kwa sheria gani na lengo lake ni nini? Idara ya usalama wa taifa ilianzishwa kwa sheria ya usalama wa taifa namba 3 ya mwaka 1970,moja ya majukumu ya idara hii ni kushughulikia kipelelezi,uhaini na mambo mengine yanayotishia ama kuathiri usalama wa taifa. Mi najikita katika hili lengo la mwisho "mambo yanayotishia ama kuathiri usalama wa taifa" hapa sheria imegusa mambo mengi sana.definition ya mambo yanayotishia usalama wa tifa ni kubwa mno.Sheria hii inagusa ujasusi na uhaini,mawasiliano,hifadhi ya habari za siri,matumizi mabaya ya uniform na passport,kutunza wahalifu,pamoja na kukutwa na silaha kinyume cha sheria. Ukiangalia makosa haya utakuta usalama wa taifa wanahusika karibu kila idara.Hata tu mawasiliano ya kutorosha mabilioni ya pesa,uwindaji haramu nk.yote yanaguswa hapa.sio kumlinda Rais tu,na sheria inawaruhusu kuingia popote.Sheria hii inagusa hadi watu walioko nje ya nchi.ILI KUONDOA MASHAKA NA KUTUFANYA TUJADILI VIZURI NAILETA HAPA NA MODERATOR UTAJUA NAMNA YA KUIMODIFY.
THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT,1970
An Act to make better provision relating to State Security; to deal
with espionage, sabotage and other activities prejudicial to the
interests of the United Republic; and for purposes incidental
thereto or connected therewith
[30TH MARCH, 1970]
ENACTED by the Parliament of the United Republic of Tanzania.
1. This Act may be cited as the National Security Act, 1970. Short title
2.-(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires- Interpretation
"authorized officer'' in relation to any provision of this Act means a
person authorized by the Minister to exercise the powers or perform
the duties conferred or imposed by such provision;
"classified matter'' means any information or thing declared to be
classified by an authorized officer;
''Defence Forces'' has the meaning assigned to it in section 10 of the
National Defence Act, 1966;
''disaffected personincludes any person carrying on a seditious
activity, that is to say, an activity constituting an offence under
section 56 of the Penal Code; Cap. 16
''foreign agent'' includes any person who is or has been or is reasonably
suspected of being or having been directly or indirectly employed by
a state other than the United Republic for the purpose of doing
in the United Republic or elsewhere any act prejudicial to the safety
or interests of the United Republic, or who has or is reasonably
suspected of having done or attempted to do such an act in the
United Republic or elsewhere in the interests of a state other than
the United Republic;
30TH MARCH. 1970
I ASSENT,
Acts, 1966
No. 24
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''Minister'' means the Minister for the time being responsible for
national security;
"model'' includes a design, pattern or specimen;
''munitions of war'' means any article, material, or device, including
military stores, or any part thereof, whether actual or proposed,
intended or adapted for use in war or the defence of the United
Republic or capable of being adapted for such use, or any article
used, or capable of being used or converted or adapted for use, in
the production thereof;
"necessary service'' includes-
(a) any service relating to the generation, supply or distribution of
electricity;
(b) any fire brigade or fire service;
(c) any sewerage, rubbish disposal or other sanitation service;
(d) any health, hospital or ambulance service-,
(e) any service relating to the supply or distribution of water;
(f) any service relating to the production, supply, delivery or
distribution of food or fuel;
(g) mining;
(h) any communications service;
(i) any transport service;
(j) any road, railway, bridge, ferry, pontoon, pipeline for the
supply of water or fuel, airfield, harbour or dock;
(k) any other service or facility, whether or not of a kind similar
to the foregoing, declared by the President, by notice published
in the Gazette, to be a necessary service for the purposes of this
Act;
"offensive weapon'' means any article made or adapted for use for
causing or threatening injury to the person, or intended by the
person in question for such use, and includes any knife, spear,
arrow, stone, axe handle, stick or similar article;
''officer m. charge of police'' means a police officer in charge of a
police station;
''official document'' includes a passport, any pass of the Defence Forces,
any police or other official pass, permit, certificate, licence or
other similar document;
"protected place'' means-
(a) any place or area declared by the President by order published
m the Gazette to be a protected place for the purposes of this
Act;
(b) any area or premises declared to be a ''protected area'' or
Acts, 1969 It protected place'' under the Protected Places and Areas Act,
No. 38 1969;
11 public office'' means an office m the service of the United Republic
or any office m the service of any specified authority; and the
term ''a person holding a public office'' includes-
(a) a member of the National Assembly;
(b) a member of a local authority;
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(c) an employee, officer or member (whether or not such officer
or member is an employee) of a specified authority;
"safety or interests of the United Republic'' includes safety or interests
of a specified authority;
''specified authority'' means-
(a) a local authority;
(b) a body corporate established by or under any written law
other than the Companies Ordinance; Cap. 212
(c) the Tanganyika African National Union, any organ of the
Tanganyika African National Union and every body of persons,
whether corporate or unincorporate, which is affiliated to the
Tanganyika African National Union;
(d) a trade union registered under the Trade Union OrdinanceC;ap. 381
(e) any company registered under the Companies Ordinance, not
less than fifty-one percenturn of the issued share capital of which
is owned by the Government or by a specified authority or,
where the company is limited by guarantee, a company in
respect of which the amount that the Government or the,
specified authority which is a member of such company has
undertaken to contribute in the event of the company being
wound up is not less than fifty percentum of the aggregate
amount which all the members have undertaken to contribute;
and references in this paragraph to a specified authority include
references to any such company;
''sketch'' includes any photographic or other copy or representation of
any place or thing;
''telegram'' means any communication transmitted or intended to be
transmitted by telegraph or delivered or intended to be delivered
from any post office or telegraph office as a communication transmitted
either wholly or partially by telegraph, and includes a
communication transmitted or intended to be transmitted by means
of a radio-communication service which is reduced to writing,
or by means of other apparatus for transmitting messages by
electric signals, whether or not a wire is used in such transmission.
(2) For the purposes of this Act-
(a) expressions referring to communicating or receiving include the
communicating or receiving of part of the sketch, plan, model,
note or other document, article or information, or of the substance,
effect or description thereof;
(b) expressions referring to obtaining or retaining any sketch, plan,
model, note or other document or article include the copying
or causing to be copied the whole or any part thereof;
(c) expressions referring to the communication of any sketch, plan,
model, note or other document or article include the transfer
or transmission thereof.
3. Any person who, for any purpose prejudicial to the safety or
interests of the United Republic-
(a) approaches, inspects, passes over, is in the vicinity of or enters any
protected place;
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and sabotage
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(b) makes any sketch, plan, model or note or in any manner whatsoever
makes a record of or relating to any thing which might
be or is intended to be directly or indirectly useful to a foreign
power or disaffected person;
(c) obtains, collects, records, publishes or communicates to any
person any code, password, sketch, plan, model, note or other
document, article or information which might be or is intended
to be directly or indirectly useful to a foreign power or disaffected
person;
(d) without lawful excuse damages, hinders or interferes with, or
does any act which is likely to damage, hinder or interfere with,
any necessary service or the carrying on thereof,
shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to imprisonment
for life.
4.-(1) Any person who has m his possession or under his control
any code, password, sketch, plan, model, note or other document, article
or information, which relates to or is used in a protected place or
anything in such a place, or which has been made or obtained m
contravention of this Act, or which has been entrusted in confidence
to him by any person holding a public office, or which he has obtained
or to which he has had access owing to his position as a person who
holds or has held such office or as a person who is or was a party to
a contract with the Government or a specified authority or a contract the
performance of which m whole or m part is carried out in or in relation
to a protected place, or as a person who is or has been employed by
or under a person who holds or has held such an office or is or was
a party to such a contract, and who-
(a) uses the same in any manner or for any purpose prejudicial to
the safety or interests of the United Republic; or
(b) communicates the same to any person other than a person to
whom he is authorized to communicate it or to whom it is in
the interests of the United Republic his duty to communicate
it; or
(q) fails to take proper care of, or so conducts himself as to endanger
the safety of, the same; or
(d) retains the sketch, plan, model, note, document or article m his
possession or under his control when he has no right or when
it is contrary to his duty so to do, or fails to comply with any
lawful directions with regard to the return or disposal thereof,
shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to imprisonment
for a term not exceeding twenty years.
(2) Any person who has m his possession or under his control any
sketch, plan, model, note or other document, article or information,
relating to munitions of war and who communicates it directly or
indirectly to any person in any manner for any purpose prejudicial
to the safety or interests of the United Republic shall be guilty of an
offence and liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not
exceeding twenty years.
Communication
of
certain
information
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(3) Any person who receives any code, password, sketch, plan,
model, . note or other document, article or information, knowing or
having reasonable grounds to believe at the time when he receives it
that the same is communicated to him in contravention of the provisions
of this Act, shall, unless he proves that the communication thereof to
him was against his wish, be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction
to imprisonment for a term not exceeding twenty years.
(4) Any person who communicates to any person other than a
person to whom he is authorized by an authorized officer to communicate
it or to whom it is in the interests of the United Republic
his duty to communicate it, any information relating to the defence or
security of the United Republic shall be guilty of an offence and liable
on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding twenty years.
(5) For the purposes of subsection (4) ''information relating to the
defence or security of the United Republic'' includes information relating
to the movements or locations of the Defence Forces or the Police
Force, the steps taken to protect any vital installations or protected
places, and the acquisition or disposal of munitions of war.
5.-(1) Any person who communicates any classified matter to any
person other than a person to whom he is authorized to communicate
it or to whom it is m the interests of the United Republic his duty to
communicate it shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to
imprisonment for a term not exceeding twenty years.
(2) In a prosecution for a contravention of subsection (1) it shall be
no defence for the accused person to prove that when he communicated
the matter he did not know and could not reasonably have known that
it was classified matter.
6.-(1) Any person who, for the purpose of gaining or assisting any
other person to gain admission to a protected place or for any other
purpose prejudicial to the safety or interests of the United Republic-
(a) without lawful authority uses or wears any uniform of the Defence
Forces or of the Police Force or any other official uniform of
the United Republic or any uniform so closely resembling the
same as to be likely to deceive, or falsely represents himself
to be a person who is or has been entitled to wear or use any
such uniform; or
(b) without lawful authority uses any vehicle belonging to the Government
or any branch thereof, or any vehicle which because of false
number-plates or other reason so closely resembles such a vehicle
as to be likely to deceive, or falsely represents himself to be a
person who is entitled to use such a vehicle; or
(q) orally or in writing m any declaration or application or m any
document signed by him or on his behalf, omits any material
fact or makes any statement which in any particular he knows to
be false or does not believe to be true; or
(d) forges, alters or tampers with any official document or uses or
has in his possession any forged altered or irregular official
document; or
Unauthorized
use of
uniforms,
passes, etc.
Protection of
classified
information
8 No. 3 National Security 1970
(e) personates or falsely represents himself to be a person holding,
or in the employ of a person holding,, a public office, or to be or
not to be a person to whom an official document or a secret
official code or password has been duly issued or communicated,
or, with intent to obtain, whether for himself or for any other
person, an official document or any secret official code or
password, makes any statement which in any particular he knows
to be false or does not believe to be true; or
(f) without lawful authority uses or has m his possession or under
his control any die, seal or stamp of or belonging to or used,
made or provided by any Government department, a specified
authority or any diplomatic, naval, army or air force authority
appointed by or acting under the authority of the Government,
or any die, seal or stamp so closely resembling any such die,
seal or stamp as aforesaid as to be likely to deceive, or counterfeits
any such die, seal or stamp or uses or has in his possession
or under his control any such counterfeit die, seal or stamp,
shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to imprisonment
for a term not exceeding twenty years.
(2) Any person who--
(a) retains any official document, whether or not completed or issued
for use, when he has no right or when it is contrary to his duty so
to do, or fails to comply with any lawful directions with regard
to the return or disposal thereof; or
(b) allows any other person to have possession of any official
document issued for his use alone, or communicates to any person
any secret official code or password so issued, or without lawful
authority or excuse has m his possession any official document
or secret official code or password issued for the use of some
person other than himself, or, on obtaining possession of any
official document, whether by finding or otherwise, neglects
or fails to hand it over to the person or authority by whom or for
whose use it was issued or to a police officer; or
(c) without lawful authority or excuse manufactures or sells, or
has m his possession for sale, any die, seal or stamp referred
to m paragraph (f) of subsection (1),
shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to imprisonment
for a term not exceeding twenty years.
7. Any person who, in the vicinity of any protected place, knowingly
obstructs, misleads or otherwise interferes with any person engaged
on guard, sentry, patrol or other similar duty in relation to the protected
place shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to imprisonment
for a term not exceeding ten years.
Interfering
with
persons on
guard at
protected
places
8.-(l) Any person who, without lawful authority or excuse, the
burden of proof whereof shall lie upon him, has in his possession or in
or upon any premises occupied by him any offensive weapon or any
offensive material shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction
to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years.
Possession of
offensive
weapons or
materials
9
(2) In this section-
''Offensive material'' means any substance, material or article made or
adapted for use for causing or threatening injury to the person or
Property, or intended by the person in question for such use,
and includes-
(a) any explosive as defined in the Explosives Act, 1963;
(b) any ammunition as defined in the Arms and Ammunitions
Ordinance;
(C) any inflammable liquid or substance, and any acid or gas.
9.-(1) The President may, by order published in the Gazette,
declare-
(a) any Organization which he recognizes as representative of the
people. or of any category of the people, of a territory in Africa
which is not an independent State (including Southern Rhodesia)
or of the Republic of South Africa, to be a designated organization
for the purposes of this section;
(b) any body or agency composed of or representing African States
(Or African and other States) whose objects include the establishment
of independent States in territories of Africa which are not
independent States, or the establishment of fully representative
governments in States practising discrimination on grounds of
colour or race, or any committee of such a body or agency, to be
a designated agency for the purposes of this section.
The declaration of an organization or body or agency under this
section as a designated organization or a designated agency, as the case
may be, shall be conclusive evidence that it is an organization, body
or agency to which this subsection refers.
(2) Any person who-
(a) for any purpose prejudicial to the safety or interests of a designated
organization, obtains, collects, records, publishes or communicates
to any other person any secret code word or pass word, or
any sketch, plan, model, article, note or other document or
information which is calculated to be or might be or is intended
to be directly or indirectly useful to the Government of any
territory m Africa which is not independent State, or to the
Government of the Republic of South Africa, or to any person
or group of persons Purporting to exercise or exercising the
powers of government in Southern Rhodesia; or
(b) for any purpose prejudicial to the safety or interests of a State
which is a member of or represented on a designated agency,
collects, records, publishes or communicates to any other person
any secret code word or Password, or any sketch, Plan, model,
article, note or other document or information which-
(i) is prepared for the confidential use of, or in confidence by,
such designated agency, or forms part of any record of its
confidential proceedings; and
(ii) is calculated to be or might be or is intended to be directly
or indirectly useful to the Government of any territory in
Africa which is not an independent State, or to the Govern.
ment of the Republic of South Africa, or to any person or
group of Persons purporting to exercise or exercising the
powers of government in Southern Rhodesia.
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Spying on
certain
organizations
and bodies
Cap. 538
Cap. 223
10 No. 3 National Security 1970
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a
term of imprisonment not exceeding twenty years.
(3) Where, m any proceedings against a person for an offence under
this section, it is proved that such person has communicated, or
attempted to communicate, any such matter referred to m subsection
(2) relating to a designated organization, or prepared for or by or
forming part of the records of a designated agency, as the case may
be, to any person employed by a government having responsibility for,
or jurisdiction m, any territory in Africa which is not an independent
State, or by the Government of the Republic of South Africa or
by any person or group of persons purporting to exercise or exercising
the powers of government in Southern Rhodesia, he shall be presumed
to have communicated, or attempted to communicate, such matter for
a purpose prejudicial to the safety or interests of such designated
organization or of a State which is a member of or represented on such
designated agency, as the case may be, unless the contrary is proved.
(4) For the avoidance of doubts it is hereby declared that for the
purposes of this section a territory in Africa is not an independent State
by reason of 'its forming an integral part of any other State other
parts of which are situated outside Africa, unless prior to becoming
such a part it was itself an independent State.
Harbouring 10.-(1) Any person who-
(a) knowingly harbours or conceals any person whom he knows or
has reasonable grounds for believing to be a person who is
about to commit, or has committed an offence under this Act,
or knowingly permits any such persons to meet or assemble in
any premises in his occupation or under his control; or
(b) having harboured or concealed any such person or permitted
any such persons to meet or assemble m any premises in his
occupation or under his control, wilfully omits or refuses to
disclose to a police officer any information that it is in his power
to give m relation to any such person,
shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to imprisonment
for a term not exceeding twenty years.
11. Any person who attempts to commit any offence under this Act,
or solicits or incites or endeavours to persuade another person to
commit any such offence, or aids or abets or does any act preparatory
to the commission of such an offence, shall be guilty of an offence
and liable on conviction to the same penalties as if he had been con-
Attempts,
etc.
victed of that offence.
12.-(l) If in any prosecution against any person for an offence
under section 3 it is proved that he has been in communication with,
Presumptions
or attempted to communicate with, a foreign agent in the United
Republic or elsewhere it shall, unless the contrary is proved, be presumed
"that he has, for a purpose prejudicial to the safety or interests of the
United Republic, obtained or attempted to obtain information which
might be or is intended to be directly or indirectly useful to a foreign
power.
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(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), but without derogating from
the generality of that subsection, a person shall unless he proves the
contrary, be deemed to have been in communication with a foreign
agent if-
(a) he has whether within or outside the United Republic, visited
or addressed any communication to the address of or associated
with, a foreign agent; or
(b) whether within or outside the United Republic, the name or
address of, or any other information regarding, a foreign agent has
been found m his possession or under his control, or has been
supplied by him to any other person or has been' obtained by
him from any other person.
(3) Any address, whether within or outside the United Republic,
reasonably suspected of being an address used for the receipt of communications
intended for a foreign agent, or at which a foreign agent
resides or to which he resorts or at which he carries on business, shall
be deemed to be the address of a foreign agent.
(4) If m a prosecution under this Act it is alleged that the accused
acted for a purpose prejudicial to the safety or interests of the United
Republic he shall, unless the contrary is proved, be deemed so to
have acted if, from the circumstances of the case or his character or
general conduct as proved, it appears that he acted for such a purpose.
(5) If m a prosecution under this Act it is alleged that anything
was made, obtained, collected, recorded, published or communicated
for a purpose prejudicial to the safety or interests of the United
Republic and it is proved that the making, obtaining, collecting, recording,
publishing or communicating was by any person other than a
person acting under lawful authority it shall, unless the contrary is
proved, be presumed that the purpose of the act or conduct in question
was. for a purpose prejudicial to the -safety or interests of the United
Republic.
(6) Where the lack of lawful authority or excuse is an element of
an offence under this Act, the burden of proving such authority or
excuse shall be on the accused and in the absence of such proof such
lack shall be presumed.
13.-(l) If a magistrate is satisfied by information on oath that there
is reasonable ground for suspecting that an offence under this Act
has been or is about to be committed he may grant a search warrant
authorizing any police officer named therein of or above the rank
of assistant inspector, together with such other police officers and
other persons who may be authorized by such named police officer,
at any time to enter any premises, place, aircraft, ship, boat, train or
other vehicle as the case may be named or described in the warrant,
if necessary by force, and to search the same and every person, or
receptacle found thereon or therein or in the vicinity thereof, and to
seize, anything which he may find in the course of such search which
is or may be evidence of an offence under this Act having been or
being about to be committed or with regard to or in correction with
which he, has reasonable grounds for suspecting that an offence has
been or is about to be committed.
search
warrants
12 No. 3 National Security 1970
(2) Where it appears to a police officer of or above the rank of
assistant inspector or to an officer m charge of police that the matter
is one of such urgency that in the interests of the United Republic
immediate action is necessary, he may by written order under his hand
give to any police officer the like authority as may be given by the
warrant of a magistrate under this section.
(3) Notwithstanding any written law to the contrary it shall not be
necessary for anything found m the course of any search conducted
in terms of a warrant or authority issued or given under this section to
be brought before any court.
(4) If, at the conclusion of any proceedings, including proceedings on
appeal, before any court against any person for an offence under this
Act, application is made by or on behalf of the Director of Public
Prosecutions for any property or article seized in the course of a search
conducted in terms of a warrant or authority issued or given under this
section to be forfeited to the Government on the ground that the return
of such property or article would be prejudicial to the safety or interests
of the United Republic, the court shall order that such property or
article be forfeited to the United Republic notwithstanding that
the accused may have been acquitted of the offence charged.
14.-(1) Any person who is found committing an offence under this
Act or who is reasonably suspected of having committed or having
attempted to commit or being about to commit such an offence may be
Arrest
without
warrant
arrested by any police officer and detained.
(2) Any person arrested under the provisions of this section shall,
whether or not the police enquiries are completed, be brought before
a magistrate as soon as practicable.
15.-(1) Where the Director or Public Prosecutions is satisfied that
there is reasonable ground for suspecting that an offence under this Act
has been or is about to be committed, and for believing that some person
may be able to furnish information with regard thereto, he may, by
writing under his hand, authorize a named officer to require that person
to give such police officer any information in his power relating to such
suspected or anticipated offence and, further, to require such person,
upon tender to him of his reasonable expenses, to attend at such
Duty to
give
information
as to commission
of
offences
reasonable time and place as may be specified by such police officer.
(2) Any person who, having been required m terms of subsection (1)
to give information or to attend at a specified time and place, wilfully
fails to comply with such requirement or knowingly gives false information
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable, on conviction, to
imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years.
16. Where any person is brought before a court on a charge under
this Act no further proceedings m respect thereof shall be taken against
him without the consent in writing of the Director of Public Prosecutions,
save such as may be necessary by remand to secure the due appearance
of the person charged.
Power to 17. Upon application m that behalf made by the prosecutor-
exclude (a) to the court conducting a preliminary inquiry or hearing a charge
public from court of an offence under this Act; or
proceedings (b) to the court hearing an appeal from the decision of the court
which heard such a charge,
Authority of
Director of
Public
Prosecutions
required for
prosecution
National Security 1970 13
on the ground that the publication of any evidence given or to be
given or any statement made or to be made at such inquiry or hearing
would be prejudicial to the interests of the United Republic, such court
shall order that all or any portion of the public shall be excluded from
the court during the whole or any part of the hearing.
18.-(1) Where it appears to the Minister that it is expedient in the
public interest so to do he may, by warrant under his hand, require of
any person who owns or controls any apparatus within the United
Republic used for the sending or receipt of telegrams to produce to
the person named in the warrant the originals and transcripts of
telegrams or of telegrams of any specified class or description, or of
telegrams sent from or addressed to any specified person or place,
and all Other Papers relating to any such telegram, and to allow the
person so named to take copies or abstracts from all or any such
originals, transcripts or papers.
(2) Any person who is required under subsection (1) to produce to
the person named in the warrant any of the documents referred to in
that subsection, or to allow such person to take copies of or abstracts
from any such document, fails or refuses to produce to such person
such document or, as the case may be, to allow such person to take a
copy or abstract from such document, shall be guilty of an offence
and shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not
exceeding three years.
19. Notwithstanding any written law to the contrary no person charged
with an offence under this Act shall be admitted to bail, either pending
trial or pending appeal, if the Director of Public Prosecutions certifies
in writing that it is likely that the safety or interests of the United
Republic would thereby be prejudiced.
20.-(1) Any act, omission or other conduct constituting an offence
under this Act shall constitute such offence wherever such conduct
took place, whether within or outside the United Republic.
(2) Where an offence under this Act has been committed outside
Tanganyika-
(a) if the offence is triable by the High Court, the High Court shall
have jurisdiction to try the person charged;
(b) in any other case, the Person charged may be tried either by the
High Court or by such court of a resident magistrate as the
Chief Justice may direct.
21. Where any offence under this Act is committed by a body
corporate, then, as well as the body corporate, any person who, at
the time of the commission of the offence, was concerned, as a director
or officer, with the management of the affairs of such body corporate,
shall be guilty of the offence and be liable to be proceeded against
1970
Production
telegrams
Extraterritorial
application
trial
Bail
Liability of
Officers
14 No. 3 National Security 1970
and punished accordingly unless he proves to the satisfaction of the
court that he had no knowledge, and could not by the exercise of
reasonable diligence have had knowledge, of the commission of the
offence.
Repeal 22. The Official Secrets Ordinance is repealed.
Cap. 45
Passed in the National Assembly on the nineteenth day of March,
1970.
Printed by the Government Printer, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Msekwa
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Clerk of ional Assembly..............................
Hebu angalieni tafsiri ya neno silaha,inacover hadi visu,je watu wangapi wanamiliki silaha kiharamu?majambazi hadi wanakodi nyumba huko Arusha je,usalama wa taifa hili si jukumu lao na kuwatonya polisi? watu wangapi wana passport mbilimbili,je hili si jukumu la usalama wa taifa? ufujaji wa mapesa ya walipa kodi je,hakuathiri usalama wa taifa?au polisi wanapewa hizi habari halafu hawashughuliki nazo? sana sana mie huwa naona kazi ya hawa jamaa kwenye kuvuja kwa mitihani,migomo ya wanafunzi,misafara ya matop wa nchi hii na ujio wa wageni hapa nchini,lakini inapofikia kwenye rasilmali za taifa,mikataba nk.mmm kimya? usalama wa taifa walishindwa kujua kwamba richmond ni kampuni hewa na kumtonya Rais? heeeeee jamani maswali ni mengi kuliko majibu.