Tanzania
Ngorongoro Conservation Area Act
Chapter 284
- Published in Tanzania Government Gazette
- Commenced on 1 April 1959
- [This is the version of this document at 31 July 2002.]
- [Note: This legislation has been thoroughly revised and consolidated under the supervision of the Attorney General's Office, in compliance with the Laws Revision Act No. 7 of 1994, the Revised Laws and Annual Revision Act (Chapter 356 (R.L.)), and the Interpretation of Laws and General Clauses Act No. 30 of 1972. This version is up-to-date as at 31st July 2002.]
Part I – Preliminary provisions (ss. 1-3)
1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Act.2. Interpretation
3. Application
Part II – Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority (ss. 4-20)
4. Establishment of Authority
5. Board of Directors
6. Functions of the Authority
The functions of the Authority shall be—7. Appointment of Conservator and Assistant Conservators
8. Appointment of other officers and employees
The Board may from time to time appoint at any salaries and upon any terms and conditions which it may think fit, any other officers and employees of the Authority whom it may deem necessary for the proper and efficient conduct of the business and activities of the Authority.9. Superannuation benefits
The Board may—10. Agents and contractors
The Board may, from time to time, appoint and employ upon any terms and conditions which it thinks fit any agents and contractors of the Authority as the Board may deem necessary.11. Power of the Board to delegate
12. Funds and resources of the Authority
The funds and resources of the Authority shall consist of—13. Annual and supplementary budget
14. Reserve and special funds
The Board may, and shall if so directed by the Minister, establish and maintain reserve or special funds of the Authority which the Board or the Minister may consider necessary or expedient, and shall make into or from any of those funds any payments which the Board may deem fit or, in the case of a fund established pursuant to a direction by the Minister, which the Minister may direct.15. Investment
With the prior approval of the Minister, the Board may, from time to time, invest any part of the moneys available in any fund of the Authority maintained by it in such manner as the Board may deem fit.16. Power to borrow
17. Accounts and audit
18. Report by the Board
The Board shall, within six months after the end of each financial year, make a report to the Minister on the conduct of the Authority's business during that financial year, and the Minister shall lay a copy of the report before the National Assembly together with a copy of the statement of accounts required to be laid before the National Assembly by section 17.19. President may give direction
The President may give to the Authority directions of a general or specific character as to the exercise by the Authority of any of its functions under this Act, and the Authority shall give effect to that direction.20. Liability of members, etc.
Without prejudice to the provisions of section 284A of the Penal Code 5 or of the Public Officers (Recovery of Debts) Act 6, no action thing done, or omitted to be done, by any member of the Board of Directors or by any officer, servant or agent of the Authority shall, if done or omitted bona fide in the execution or purported execution of his duties as a member, officer, servant or agent, subject that person to any action, liability or demand.Part III – Control of entry into and residence and settlement within the conservation area (ss. 21-23)
21. Restriction of entry and residence in Conservation Area
22. Certificates of residence
23. Control of residence and settlement
Part IV – Control of cultivation and grazing and protection of natural resources (ss. 24-28)
24. Conservation of soil and protection of natural resources
25. Prohibition of cultivation
No person shall use any parcel of land in the Conservation Area for cultivation.26. Closing orders
27. Executive powers of Authority
The Authority may take measures within the Conservation Area—28. Rights of entry
Part V – Orders and appeals (ss. 29-34)
29. Subsidiary legislation
All subsidiary legislation made under this Act shall be published in the Gazette and where the subsidiary legislation has been published in English, the Authority shall, as soon as practicable after the publication, cause to be published in the Gazette its Kiswahili translation:Provided that—30. Appeals against refusal to grant permit, certificate or other authority
31. Appeal against orders
Any person aggrieved by any order made under this Act which adversely affects him, may appeal against that order to the Minister:Provided that no appeal under this section shall lie—32. Powers on appeal
33. Special provisions relating to appeals to the Authority
34. Minister may make rules relating to appeals
The Minister may, by rules prescribe—Part VI – Enforcement and penalties (ss. 35-39)
35. Power to demolish works
36. Power to seize stock and weapons
Where any officer, the Conservator, an Assistant Conservator or any other person authorised in writing in that behalf by the Authority has reason to believe that—37. Powers of arrest
A police officer, the Conservator, an Assistant Conservator or any other person authorised in writing in that behalf by the Authority may arrest without warrant any person who he reasonably suspects has committed an offence against this Act or against any rules made under it, where—38. Offences
39. Forfeiture of stock and weapons, etc.
Where any person has been convicted of an offence under the provisions of subsection (1) of section 38 in respect of the depasturing of stock, the varying or use of weapons, snares, traps, nets or poison, the use of agricultural implements or machinery or the gathering of honey or the taking or obtaining of forest produce, the court may order that the stock, weapons, snares, traps, nets, poison, agricultural implements or machinery, honey or forest produce, be forfeited to the Government.Part VII – Miscellaneous provisions (ss. 40-45)
40. Conduct of prosecutions
The Conservator or an Assistant Conservator, may conduct a prosecution for an offence against this Act or any rules made under it and shall for that purpose have the powers of a public prosecutor for the purposes of the Criminal Procedure Act 11.41. Power to compound offences
42. Operation of other laws
43. ***
[Repealed by Act No. 14 of 1975 s. 25.]44. ***
[Repealed by Act No. 14 of 1975 s. 25.]45. Rules
The Minister may make rules generally for the better carrying out of the purposes of this Act and, in particular, but without prejudice to the generality of the preceding provisions, may make rules requiring the payment of and prescribing fees (in addition to any fees which may be prescribed under section 21) for anything required or permitted to be done under this Act or any orders made by the Authority under it.History of this document
31 July 2002 this version
Consolidation
01 July 1959
Commenced
01 April 1959
Commenced
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