Penal Code of Tanzania - Criminal Defense Wiki

66. Piracy
(1) Any person who–
(a) does any unlawful act of violence against a ship or vessels registered in the United
Republic or against persons or property on board that vessel; or
(b) being a citizen of Tanzania does any unlawful act of violence against any vessel; or
(c) voluntarily participates in the operation of a vessel or an aircraft for the purpose of
doing any act referred to in paragraph (a) or (b),
shall be guilty of the offence termed "piracy" and shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment
for life.
(2) No prosecution under this section shall be commenced without the consent of the
Director of Public Prosecutions.
CHAPTER IX
UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLIES AND RIOTS AND OTHER OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC
TRANQUILITY
(ss 67-90)
67.-73. Repealed
[Repealed by Ord. No. 11 of 1954 s. 33.]
74. Definition of unlawful assembly and riot
(1) When three or more persons assemble with intent to commit an offence or, being
assembled with intent to carry out some common purpose, conduct themselves in such a
manner as to cause persons in the neighbourhood reasonably to fear that the persons so
assembled will commit a breach of the peace or will, by that assembly needlessly and without
any reasonable occasion, provoke other persons to commit a breach of the peace, they are an
unlawful assembly.
(2) It is immaterial that the original assembling was lawful if, being assembled, they conduct
themselves with a common purpose in the manner referred to in subsection (1).
(3) When an unlawful assembly has begun to execute the purpose for which it assembled by
a breach of the peace and to the terror of the public, the assembly is called a riot, and the
persons assembled are said to be riotously assembled.
75. Punishment for unlawful assembly
Any person who takes part in an unlawful assembly is guilty of an offence and is liable to
imprisonment for one year.