Entries by fbadmin1

Lending academic certificates

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I am a form four leaver doing private business. My cousin is asking me to lend him my form four academic certificate as he wants to use it to apply for a job in a private company. Is this a crime? I really want to help him to secure this job as the job market is […]

Property tax disputes

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What is the procedure for challenging an assessment of property rates? Is the affected party required to follow the same procedure provided under the Tax Administration Act, 2015? OP, Moshi Regulation 15 of the Local Government Authorities Rating (Collection of Property Rates) Regulations, 2020 (GN No.1 of 2020) requires a rate payer aggrieved by the […]

Q&A – 5 April 2021

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Paternity leave for a child born out of wedlock I do not believe in marriages and luckily am not married but have a child with my girlfriend. I have been having an argument with my employer, who is very unhappily married, that I am entitled to paternity leave notwithstanding that the child is born out […]

Notice pay subject to pension deduction

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I work for a private company and recently signed a mutual separation agreement with my employer. One of the terminal dues agreed upon was 3 months’ remuneration in lieu of notice of termination of my employment. When I went to collect my terminal dues I was surprised to be told that my 3 months’ notice […]

Pledging of pension benefits

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I work for a private company and contribute to the National Social Security Fund. I took a personal loan from a savings and credit cooperative society popularly known as a SACCOS and pledged my pension benefit as a security for the loan. Am I allowed to do that and Is this contract valid in law? […]

Q&A – 29 March 2021

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Selling charcoal and money laundering My aunt was found selling charcoal without a permit to sell or buy forest produce. At the time of her arrest she had already sold a number of bags of charcoal and had some amount of cash in her poach. She is now being charged with selling forest produce without […]

Squatter regularisation schemes

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I live in a squatter and have been informed by our Mtaa Chairman that the Government intends to regularise our settlements and we shall be given a certificate of occupancy at the end of the regularisation project. Because in the squatter we have very small plots, I am afraid my plot may be merged with […]

Female Police searching a male suspect

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I was put under arrest for a certain offence and taken to the police. Surprisingly, although I am a man, I was searched by a female police officer. Is this allowed under our laws? AJ, Arusha Unfortunately there is no express provision of the law that bars a female police from searching the body of […]

Q&A – 22 March 2021

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Requirements for running game meat butcher I am running a beef butcher. I want to switch to a game meat butcher. What am I supposed to do to change the nature of business from beef selling to game meat selling? MM, Simiyu Game meat selling is highly regulated in order to safeguard against poaching. The […]

Time limit for interrogation

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I was taken in for police interview and spent the entire day from 9am to 7pm, and then admitted to bail after having to plead with the officer that I did not want to be held in custody as it was a minor bailable offence which i was denying in any case. I was told […]

Alternate job refusal, applicability of severance

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We are carrying out restructuring of our company and have decided to phase out some of the positions in the new organisational structure. One of our employees whose position has been phased out in the new structure has refused an alternative job we offered him in another company of ours. She is arguing that she […]

Intercourse as a form of treatment

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If a traditional healer prescribes sexual intercourse with a client as a form of examination or treatment for an ailment and the client consents on belief that she will get healed, does that constitute rape? PO, Dar It is an unethical and an offence for a traditional healer to have sexual intercourse with a client. […]

Q&A – 15 March 2021

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Intercourse as a form of treatment If a traditional healer prescribes sexual intercourse with a client as a form of examination or treatment for an ailment and the client consents on belief that she will get healed, does that constitute rape? PO, Dar It is an unethical and an offence for a traditional healer to […]

Beehive in neighborhood

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My neighbor has placed a number of beehives in a tree whose shade gets into my house. I am very conscious about my beauty and thus use perfumes and lotion with strong scents. I am worried the bees might attack me because of this scent. What can I do legally? LJ Arusha The law which […]

Offence of forgery

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I asked my friend to collect my rent allowance from our cashier on my behalf. After taking the money he signed the pay-list on my behalf. He is now being accused of forgery on the ground that he signed the pay-list purporting to be me. Is there anything wrong he did as the money was […]

Regulation of advertisement of traditional medicine

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I have been seeing advertisements of traditional and alternative medicine remedies that are claimed to have the efficacy of enlarging male sexual organs and even boosting men’s sexual power amongst others. Is there any law that regulates these immoral advertisements of such traditional and alternative medicine remedies? PP, Dar Advertisements of traditional and alternative medicine […]

Q&A – 8 March 2021

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Regulation of advertisement of traditional medicine I have been seeing advertisements of traditional and alternative medicine remedies that are claimed to have the efficacy of enlarging male sexual organs and even boosting men’s sexual power amongst others. Is there any law that regulates these immoral advertisements of such traditional and alternative medicine remedies? PP, Dar […]

Stealing a lost property

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I lost my mobile phone on my way home from a bar. My phone has my picture on the screen. One of my neighbour’s who knows me very well and is able to identify me from my picture on the phone found my phone but instead of bringing the phone to me, he sold it […]