Penal Code of Tanzania - Criminal Defense Wiki

323. Casting away vessels
Any person who–
(a) wilfully and unlawfully casts away or destroys any vessel whether completed or not;
(b) wilfully and unlawfully does any act which tends to the immediate loss or destruction of
a vessel in distress; or
(c) with intent to bring a vessel into danger, interferes with any light, beacon, buoy, mark
or signal used for purposes of navigation, or exhibits any false light or signal,
is guilty of an offence and is liable to imprisonment for fourteen years.
324. Attempts to cast away vessels
Any person who attempts unlawfully to cast away or destroy a vessel, whether completed or
not, or attempts unlawfully to do any act tending to the immediate loss or destruction of a vessel
in distress is guilty of an offence, and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.
325.
Injuring animals
Any person who wilfully and unlawfully kills, maims or wounds any animal capable of being
stolen is guilty of an offence.
326. Punishment for malicious injuries to property
(1) Any person who wilfully and unlawfully destroys or damages any property is guilty of an
offence, and except as otherwise provided in this section, is liable to imprisonment for seven
years.
(2) If the property in question is a dwelling house or a vessel, and the injury is caused by the
explosion of any explosive substance, and if–
(a) any person is in the dwelling house or vessel; or
(b) the destruction or damage actually endangers the life of any person,
the offender is liable to imprisonment for life.
(3) If the property in question–
(a) is a bank or wall of a river, canal, aqueduct, reservoir or inland water or work which
appertains to a dock, reservoir or inland water, and the injury causes actual danger of
inundation or damage to any land or building;
(b) is a railway, a bridge, viaduct or aqueduct which is constructed over a highway, railway
or canal, or over which a railway, highway or canal passes, and the property is