Penal Code of Tanzania - Criminal Defense Wiki

164. Repealed
[Repealed by Act No. 5 of 1971 s. 166(2).]
165. Marriage ceremony fraudulently gone through without lawful marriage
Any person who dishonestly or with a fraudulent intention goes through the ceremony of
marriage, knowing that he is not thereby lawfully married, is guilty of an offence and liable to
imprisonment for five years.
166. Desertion of children
Any person who being the parent, guardian or other person having the lawful care or charge
of a child whose apparent age is not more than fourteen years, and being able to maintain the
child, wilfully and without lawful or reasonable cause deserts the child and leaves it without
means of support, is guilty of an offence.
167. Neglecting to provide food, etc., for children
Any person who, being the parent or guardian or other person having the lawful care or
charge of any child whose apparent age is not more than fourteen years and unable to provide
for itself, refuses or neglects to provide (being able to do so) sufficient food, clothes, bedding
and other necessaries of life for the child, so as to injure the health of that child, is guilty of an
offence.
168. Master not providing for servants or apprentices
Any person who, being legally liable either as a master or mistress, to provide for any
apprentice or servant necessary food, clothing, or lodging, wilfully and without lawful excuse
refuses or neglects to provide the same, or unlawfully and maliciously does or causes to be
done any bodily harm to the apprentice or servant so that the life of that apprentice or servant is
endangered or that his health has been or is likely to be permanently injured, is guilty of an
offence.
169. Child stealing
(1) Any person who, with intent to deprive a parent, guardian or other person who has the
lawful care or charge of a child under the age of fourteen years, of the possession of that child–
(a) forcibly or fraudulently takes or entices away, or detains the child; or
(b) receives or harbours the child, knowing it to have been so taken or enticed away or
detained,
is guilty of an offence and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.
(2) It is a defence to a charge under this section to prove that the accused person claimed in
good faith a right to the possession of the child or, in the case of a child born out of wedlock, is