Penal Code of Tanzania - Criminal Defense Wiki
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whom, any such matters or things can be procured either directly or indirectly; or<br />
(e) publicly exhibits any indecent show or performance or any show or performance<br />
tending to corrupt morals,<br />
is guilty <strong>of</strong> an <strong>of</strong>fence, and is liable to imprisonment for two years or to a fine <strong>of</strong> two hundred<br />
thousand shillings.<br />
(2) If in respect <strong>of</strong> any <strong>of</strong>fence specified in paragraphs (a), (b), (c) or (d) <strong>of</strong> subsection (1),<br />
any constitutive element <strong>of</strong> the <strong>of</strong>fence is committed in Mainland <strong>Tanzania</strong> the commission shall<br />
be sufficient to render the person accused <strong>of</strong> that <strong>of</strong>fence triable in Mainland <strong>Tanzania</strong>.<br />
(3) A court, on convicting a person <strong>of</strong> an <strong>of</strong>fence against this section, may order to be<br />
destroyed any matter or thing made, possessed or used for the purpose <strong>of</strong> that <strong>of</strong>fence.<br />
(4) A court may, on the application <strong>of</strong> a public prosecutor, order the destruction <strong>of</strong> any<br />
obscene matter or thing to which this section relates, whether any person may or may not have<br />
been convicted under the provisions <strong>of</strong> this section in respect <strong>of</strong> the obscene matter or thing.<br />
176.<br />
Idle and disorderly persons<br />
Any <strong>of</strong> the following persons–<br />
(a) a common prostitute behaving in a disorderly or indecent manner in a public place or<br />
loitering or soliciting in a public place for the purposes <strong>of</strong> prostitution;<br />
(b) a person wandering or placing himself in a public place to beg or gather alms, or<br />
causing or procuring or encouraging a child so to do;<br />
(c) a person playing at any game <strong>of</strong> chance for money or money's worth in a public place;<br />
(d) a person wandering abroad and endeavouring by the exposure <strong>of</strong> wounds or<br />
deformation to obtain or gather alms;<br />
(e) a person who publicly conducts himself in a manner likely to cause a breach <strong>of</strong> the<br />
peace;<br />
(f) a person who without lawful excuse publicly does any indecent act;<br />
(g) a person who in any public place solicits for immoral purposes;<br />
(h) an able-bodied person who is not engaged in any productive work and has no visible<br />
means <strong>of</strong> subsistence; or<br />
(i) a person employed under lawful employment <strong>of</strong> any description who is, without any<br />
lawful excuse, found engaged on a frolic <strong>of</strong> his own at a time he is supposed to be<br />
engaged in activities connected or relating to the business <strong>of</strong> his employment,
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