Penal Code of Tanzania - Criminal Defense Wiki

294. Housebreaking and burglary
(1) Any person who–
(a) breaks and enters any building, tent or vessel used as a human dwelling with intent to
commit an offence therein; or
(b) having entered any building, tent or vessel used as a human dwelling with intent to
commit an offence therein or having committed an offence in the building, tent or
vessel, breaks out of it,
is guilty of housebreaking and is liable to imprisonment for fourteen years.
(2) If an offence under this section is committed in the night, it is burglary and the offender is
liable to imprisonment for twenty years.
295. Entering dwelling house with intent to commit offence
Any person who enters or is in any building, tent or vessel used as a human dwelling with
intent to commit a an offence therein, is guilty of an offence, and liable to imprisonment for ten
years and if the offence is committed in the night, he is liable to imprisonment for fourteen
years.
296. Breaking into building and committing an offence
Any person who–
(a) breaks and enters a school house, shop, warehouse, store, workshop, garage, office
or counting house, or a building which is adjacent to a dwelling house and occupied
with it but is not part of it, or any building used as a place of worship and commits an
offence therein;
(b) having committed an offence in any building referred to in paragraph (a) breaks out of
the building,
is guilty of an offence and is liable to imprisonment for ten years.
297. Breaking into building with intent to commit an offence
Any person who breaks and enters a school house, shop, warehouse, store, workshop,
garage, office or counting house, or a building which is adjacent to a dwelling house and
occupied with it but is not part of it, or any building used as a place of worship, with intent to
commit an offence therein, is guilty of an offence, and is liable to imprisonment for fourteen
years.
298. Being armed, etc., with intent to commit an offence