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Tanzania Wood Industry Corporation (Establishment) Order, 1971

Government Notice 13 of 1971

Tanzania Wood Industry Corporation (Establishment) Order, 1971
Citation
Government Notice 13 of 1971
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Public Corporations Act
Date
31 July 2002
Language
English
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Government Notice
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Tanzania Wood Industry Corporation (Establishment) Order, 1971

Government Notice 13 of 1971

  • Published in Tanzania Government Gazette
  • Commenced
  • [This is the version of this document at 31 July 2002.]
  • [Note: This legislation was revised and consolidated as at 31 July 2002 and 30 November 2019 by 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. All subsequent amendments have been researched and applied by Laws.Africa for TANZLII.]
[Sections 3, 5 and 10]

1. Citation

This Order may be cited as the Tanzania Wood Industry Corporation (Establishment) Order.

2. Interpretation

In this Order, unless the context requires otherwise—"Act" means the Public Corporations Act1;1Cap. 257"Board" means the Board of Directors provided for in paragraph 5;"Corporation" means the Tanzania Wood Industry Corporation established by paragraph 3;"Minister" means the Minister responsible for forests;"wood" means wood of any kind or description and includes timber, saw-log, forest product, hard-board, fibre-board, cardboard, paper pulp, paper and other articles made of or from wood;"wood industry" means the manufacture of any wood-work, operation of saw mill and includes buying, sealing, exporting, importing and marketing of wood and wood-works;"wood-work" means any article made out of, or from, wood and includes a wood carving and also an article in the manufacture of which wood is used.

3. Establishment of Corporation

There is hereby established a public corporation to be known as the Tanzania Wood Industry Corporation.

4. Functions of Corporation

(1)The functions of the Corporation shall be to—
(a)promote the development of wood-industry and the production of wood and wood-works;
(b)carry on business as manufacturers, buyers and sellers of, and dealers in, wood-workers' supplies of all kinds, and in wood, buildings, veneers and wood-works of all kinds;
(c)carry on the business of logging operations, and buying and selling of logs of every description;
(d)buy, sell, prepare for market, manipulate, import, export and deal in wood and wood-works;
(e)carry on the business of timber and lumber merchants, lumber yard and saw mill proprietors;
(f)acquire by agreement and hold interest in any undertaking, enterprise or project associated with wood industry or the business of manufacturing, buying, selling, marketing, importing, exporting wood or wood-works;
(g)manage the affairs of any corporation, company, firm or other body, the interests of which are transferred to or acquired by the Corporation under the provisions of the Act or otherwise;
(h)carry on its business operations and activities either within the United Republic or elsewhere, whether as principal, agent, contractor or otherwise, and either alone or in conjunction with any other person, firm or body corporate;
(i)promote the interest and participation of local authorities and co-operative societies in wood industry, research in forestry and wood-work industry;
(j)do all other acts and things which may be necessary to uphold and support the credit of the Corporation and to attain and justify public confidence, and to avert or minimise any loss to the Corporation;
(k)do any act or thing or enter into any transaction which, in the opinion of the Board, is calculated to facilitate the proper and efficient carrying on of its activities and the proper performance of its functions as specified in this paragraph.
(2)The Corporation may perform its functions, either itself or through any contractor or contractors employed by the Corporation on such terms and conditions as the Board may approve.

5. Management vested in Board of Directors

(1)The management of the Corporation is hereby vested in a Board of Directors.
(2)The Board shall consist of—
(a)a Chairman who shall be appointed by the President;
(b)any other members being not less than five nor more than nine whom the Minister may appoint, one of whom he shall nominate as its Vice-Chairman.
(3)The President may appoint a General Manager of the Corporation.
(4)The Board may appoint on such terms and conditions as it thinks fit such officers and servants of the Corporation as may be necessary for conducting the business of the Corporation.
(5)The Chairman and other members of the Board shall be entitled to the allowances and at the rates which the Minister may from time to time prescribe.
(6)The Minister may make regulations with respect to—
(a)the appointment of and the tenure and vacation of office by the members of the Board;
(b)the quorum, proceedings and meetings of the Board and determinations of the Board.
(7)Subject to the provisions of any regulation made under subparagraph (6) the Board shall have power to regulate its own procedure.

6. Salaries, etc., to be paid out of Corporation's funds

All salaries, fees and any other allowances payable to the Chairman, a member of the Board, the General Manager and other officers and servants of the Corporation, shall be paid out of the funds of the Corporation.

7. Seal of Corporation

(1)The Seal of the Corporation shall be affixed by the Chairman, the Vice-Chairman or the General Manager and witnessed by one other member of the Board.
(2)All contract, guarantees, agreements, bonds, authorities, mortgages, charges, bills of exchange, promissory notes, bank drafts, letters of credit, securities and any other instruments to which the Corporation is a party, shall be executed on behalf of the Corporation—
(a)by the General Manager and a member of the Board; or
(b)by any other person or persons who may be authorised by the Board in that behalf:
Provided that the General Manager may, in writing, delegate his function under this subparagraph to any officer of the Corporation.

8. Board may act notwithstanding vacancy

Subject to the provisions of any regulations relating to quorum made under subparagraph (6) of paragraph 5, the Board may act notwithstanding any vacancy in the membership thereof and no act or proceeding of the Board shall be invalid by reason only of some defect in the appointment of a member or a person who purports to be a member or, where the regulations provide for the appointment of an alternate member, in the appointment of that alternate member or a person who purports to be the alternate member.

9. Borrowing powers of Corporation

The Corporation may from time to time borrow such sums of money as it may require to meet any of its obligations or for the purposes of its business.

10. Delegation of powers

(1)[Superseded by section 7 of R.E. Cap. 257.]
(2)The Minister is hereby designated as the Minister for the purposes of the provisions of section 35 of the Act which relates to the accounts of the Corporation.
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