Penal Code of Tanzania - Criminal Defense Wiki

319. Arson
Any person who wilfully and unlawfully sets fire to–
(a) any building or structure whatever, whether completed or not;
(b) any vessel, whether completed or not;
(c) any stack of cultivated vegetable produce or of mineral or vegetable fuel; or
(d) a mine or the workings, fittings or appliances of a mine,
is guilty of an offence and is liable to imprisonment for life.
320. Attempts to commit arson
Any person who–
(a) attempts unlawfully to set fire to any thing referred to in section 319; or
(b) wilfully and unlawfully sets fire to anything which is so situated that any thing referred
to in section 319 is likely to catch fire from it,
is guilty of an offence and is liable to imprisonment for fourteen years.
321. Setting fire to crops and growing plants
Any person who wilfully and unlawfully sets fire to–
(a) a crop of cultivated produce, whether standing, picked or cut;
(b) crop of hay or grass under cultivation, whether the natural or indigenous product of the
soil or not, and whether standing or cut; or
(c) any standing trees, saplings or shrubs, whether indigenous or not, under cultivation,
is guilty of an offence and is liable to imprisonment for fourteen years.
322. Attempting to set fire to crops, etc.
Any person who–
(a) attempts unlawfully to set fire to any such thing as is mentioned in section 321; or
(b) wilfully and unlawfully sets fire to any thing which is so situated that any such thing as
is mentioned in section 321 is likely to catch fire from it,
is guilty of an offence and liable to imprisonment for seven years.