Professional statute overview
Enactment structure, operative effect and source provenance
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Purpose and legislative effect
“This Act may be cited as the Penal Code and called “this Code”.”
This Act may be cited as the Penal Code and called “this Code”. This section is titled “Disapplication of Indian Penal Code” and “Saving of certain laws.” This section says the Penal Code does not change liability, trial, punishment, contempt powers, or the President’s pardon-related powers, and it prevents double punishment for the same offence under this Code and another applicable law. This section says the Code must be interpreted under the Interpretation of Laws Act and any expressions specifically defined in the Code, using ordinary principles of construction for written law and Tanzanian conditions, not strict penal construction. This section defines many terms used in the Penal Code, including “court,” “dwelling house,” “harm,” “offence,” “public place,” “utter,” and “wound.”
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Source and current-law status
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