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42. Omitted [Omitted.] 43 Promoting warlike undertakings Any person who, without lawful authority, carries on or makes preparation for carrying on, or aids in or devises the carrying on of, or preparation for, any war or warlike undertaking with, for, by or against any person or body or group of persons in the United Republic, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment for life. 44. Replaced 45. [Replaced by C.A. 2 of 1962 s. 36.] Inciting to mutiny Any person who advisedly attempts to effect any of the following purposes, that is to say– (a) to seduce any member of the Police Force, the Prisons Service or the National Service from his duty and allegiance to the United Republic; (b) to incite any such person to commit an act of mutiny or any traitorous or mutinous act; or (c) to incite any such person to make or endeavour to make a mutinous assembly, is guilty of an offence and is liable to imprisonment for life. 46. Aiding soldiers or police officers in acts of mutiny 47. Any person who– (a) aids, abets, or is accessory to, any act of mutiny by any member of the Police Force, Prisons Service or National Service; or (b) incites any member of the Police Force, Prisons Service or National Service to sedition or to disobedience to any lawful order given by a superior officer is guilty of an offence. Inducing soldiers or police officers to desert Any person who, by any means whatsoever, directly or indirectly– (a) procures or persuades or attempts to procure or persuade to desert; or (b) aids, abets or is accessory to the desertion of; or (c) having reason to believe he is a deserter, harbours or aids in concealing,
any member of the Police Force, Prisons Service or National Service, is guilty of an offence and is liable to imprisonment for six months. 48. Aiding prisoners of war to escape Any person who– (a) knowingly and advisedly aids an enemy of the Republic who is a prisoner of war, whether the prisoner is confined in a prison or elsewhere, or is suffered to be at large on his parole, to escape from his prison or place of confinement, or if he is at large on his parole, to escape from Mainland Tanzania, is guilty of an offence, and is liable to imprisonment for life; (b) negligently and unlawfully permits the escape of any person referred to in paragraph (a) is guilty of an offence. 49. Definition of overt act In the case of any of the offences set out in this Chapter, when the manifestation by an overt act of the intention to effect any purpose is an element of the offence, every act of conspiring with any person to effect that purpose and every act done in furtherance of the purpose by any of the persons conspiring is deemed to be an overt act manifesting the intention. 50.-54. Repealed [Repealed by Act No. 3 of 1976 s. 55 2(12).] 55. Seditious intention (1) A seditious intention is an intention to– (a) bring into hatred or contempt or to excite disaffection against the lawful authority of the United Republic or its Government; (b) excite any of the inhabitants of the United Republic to attempt to procure the alteration, otherwise than by lawful means, of any other matter in the United Republic as by law established; (c) bring into hatred or contempt or to excite disaffection against the administration of justice in the United Republic; or (d) raise discontent or disaffection amongst any of the inhabitants of the United Republic; (e) promote feelings of ill-will and hostility between different classes of the population of the United Republic. (2) An act, speech or publication is not seditious by reason only that it intends to–
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that person; (c) shoots or throws a
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offence. 361. Repeated uttering Any
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