Penal Code of Tanzania - Criminal Defense Wiki

harm to any person or to resist or prevent the lawful arrest or detention of any person–
(a) unlawfully wounds or does any grievous harm to any person by any means whatever;
(b) unlawfully attempts in any manner to strike any person with any kind of projectile or
with a spear, sword, knife or other dangerous or offensive weapon;
(c) unlawfully causes any explosive substance to explode;
(d) sends or delivers any explosive substance or other dangerous or noxious thing to any
person;
(e) causes any substance or thing referred to in paragraph (d) to be taken or received by
any person;
(f) puts any corrosive fluid or any destructive or explosive substance in any place; or
(g) unlawfully casts or throws any fluid or substance referred to in paragraph (f) at or upon
any person, or otherwise applies any such fluid or substance to that person of any
person,
is guilty of an offence, and liable to imprisonment for life.
222A. Possession of human being parts
Any person who is found in unlawful possession of human being parts commits an offence
and shall upon conviction be liable to imprisonment for a period not exceeding thirty years.
223. Preventing escape from wreck
Any person who unlawfully–
(a) prevents or obstructs any other person who is on board of, or is escaping from, a
vessel which is in distress or wrecked, in his endeavours to save his life; or
(b) obstructs any other person in his endeavours to save the life of any person in the
circumstances referred to in paragraph (a),
is guilty of an offence and liable to imprisonment for life.
224. Endangering safety of persons travelling by railway
(1) Any person who, with intent to injure or to endanger the safety of any person travelling by
any railway, whether a particular person or not–
(a) places anything on the railway;
(b) deals with the railway, or with anything whatever upon or near the railway, in such a
manner as to affect or endanger the free and safe use of the railway or the safety of