'Impeding, intimidating or corruptly influencing an official of the Court' in document 'Tanzania - Penal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

PART II
CRIMES

Division II. – Offences against the Administration of Lawful Authority.

CHAPTER XI
OFFENCES RELATING TO THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE

111. Unlawful compounding of offences

Any person who asks, receives, or obtains or agrees or attempts to receive or obtain, any property or benefit of any kind for himself or any other person upon any agreement or understanding that he will compound or conceal an offence, or will abstain from, discontinue, or delay a prosecution for an offence, or will withhold any evidence thereof, commits an offence.

PART II
CRIMES

Division II. – Offences against the Administration of Lawful Authority.

CHAPTER XI
OFFENCES RELATING TO THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE

114A. Preventing or obstructing service or execution of process Ord. No. 5 1961 s. 6

Any person who–

(a) wilfully obstructs or knowingly prevents or in any way interferes with or resists the service upon himself or any other person of any summons, notice, order, of warrant or other process issued by a court for service on himself or such other person, as the case may be ;
(b) wilfully obstructs or knowingly prevents or in any way interferes with or resists the execution of any summons, notice, order, warrant or other process issued by a court, or any person lawfully charged with its execution ; or
(c) absconds in order to avoid being served with any summons, notice, order, warrant or other process issued by a court, commits an offence and shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment for
a term not exceeding one year.

RELEVANT ROME STATUTE PROVISIONS

Article 70
Offences against the administration of justice
1. The Court shall have jurisdiction over the following offences against its administration of justice when committed intentionally:
(d) Impeding, intimidating or corruptly influencing an official of the Court for the purpose of forcing or persuading the official not to perform, or to perform improperly, his or her duties