Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

B14: Authorization requirements for importing certain products 

Date when the measure came into force

01 July 2003 

Publication where the measure is specified

No.1 Tanzania Food, Drugs, Cosmetics,2003.The United Reoublic of Tanzania 

Regulation where the measure is specified

Food,Drugs and Cosmetics Act,2003 

Country/Region applying the measure

Tanzania 

Coded list of objectives

X: For purposes n.e.s. 

Description of the measure

82.-41) No person shall deal in any prohibited drugs unless he holds a permit issued by the Authority.
(2) Any person who contravenes the provisions of subsection (1),commits an offence and upon conviction shall be liable to imprisonment for a term of not less than five years and notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any other law for the time being in force,the court shall not order that the operation of the whole or any part of the sentence be suspended.
(3) Where upon conviction the convicted person satisfies the court that there are special circumstances in the particular case, which circumstances shall be recorded by the court, why such a sentence should not be imposed, the convicted person shall be liable to a fine of not less than five million shillings or to imprisonment for a term of not less than one year or to both such fine and imprisonment
83.-( 1) Where any person is convicted of any offence under the provisions of section 82,
the court -
(a) shall order that any drugs to which the conviction relates be forfeited to the Government;
(b) may order that any vehicle, aircraft, vessel, boat, animal, receptacle, container or thing in or upon which such drugs was found, be forfeited to the Government and the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Act, 1985 and the Evidence Act, 1967, shall, muta-tis mutandis, apply.
(2) In any prosecution under the provisions of section 82, if it is established to the satisfaction of the court that the convicted person used any motor vehicle to convey the products regulated under this Act, which the conviction relates, the court may order that the convicted person or, where the motor vehicle concerned was driven by another person, that other person, be prohibited from driving all classes of motor vehicles for a period not exceeding fifteen years and the appropriate provisions the Road Traffic Act, 1973 shall, mutatis mutandis, apply in respect of of 1973
any such prohibition.
84. Subject to the provisions of section 83, the Director General Safe custody of shall keep such forfeited drugs into a safe custody until such date of forfeited disposal. 

Reference of the measure

Part IV section f para 82-84 

Measure also domestic

Yes 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

Drugs 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.

Description

All countries