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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 Repealed
[Repealed by Act No. 3 of 1976 s. 55 2(12).]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–