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Tanzania Wildlife Corporation (Establishment) Order, 1974

Government Notice 231 of 1974

Tanzania Wildlife Corporation (Establishment) Order, 1974
Citation
Government Notice 231 of 1974
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Public Corporations Act
Date
31 July 2002
Language
English
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Government Notice
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Tanzania Wildlife Corporation (Establishment) Order, 1974

Government Notice 231 of 1974

  • 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.]
[Section 3, 4A and 10; G. Ns. Nos. 231 of 1974; 389 of 1990]

1. Citation

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

2. Interpretation

In this Order, unless the context requires otherwise—"Act" means the Public Corporations Act1;1Cap. 257"animal" shall have the meaning assigned to that expression by section 2 of the Wildlife Conservation Act2;2Cap. 283"Board" means the Board of Directors provided for in paragraph 6;"Corporation" means the Tanzania Wildlife Corporation established by paragraph 3;"Minister" means the Minister responsible for natural resources;"trophy" shall have the meaning assigned to those expressions by section 2 of the Wildlife Conservation Act 3.3Cap. 283

3. Establishment of Corporation

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

4. Functions of Corporation

(1)The functions of the Corporation shall be to—
(a)hunt and capture animals and to buy, sell, export or otherwise deal in live animals and trophies;
(b)process and manufacture trophies;
(c)establish and maintain abattoirs, cold storage plants and other plants and machinery necessary for the processing and marketing of wildlife meat and other animal products;
(d)promote public interest, both within and outside the United Republic, in the Tanzania Wildlife;
(e)establish and maintain animal parks, farms, zoos, aviaries, aquaria and like establishments;
(f)manufacture, buy, sell, import, export or otherwise deal in equipment, material and goods necessary or expedient for effective performance of its functions;
(g)participate in or undertake, on a commercial basis, any enterprise related to or connected with wildlife;
(h)carry out, promote or sponsor research in any aspect of the wildlife industry and the marketing of trophies, animal meat and other animal products;
(i)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 any written law or otherwise;
(j)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;
(k)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;
(l)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 the terms and conditions which the Board may approve.
(3)Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed as authorising the Corporation or any officer of the Corporation to contravene any provision of the Act.

5. Authorised capital

(1)The authorised nominal capital of the Corporation shall be four hundred million shillings divided into four hundred thousand shares having a par value of one thousand shillings each.
(2)The initial paid up capital of the Corporation shall be of the amount which the Minister may, after consultation with the Minister for Finance, determine and the determination shall be published in the Gazette.
(3)No person other than the United Republic shall be entitled to hold any share in the Corporation.
(4)Payment for any further share or shares issued by the Corporation and allotted to the United Republic shall be made in any a manner as the Minister, after consultation with the Board and the Minister for Finance, shall determine.

6. Management

(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 as 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 from time to time appoint on such terms and conditions as it thinks fit officers and servants of the Corporation who 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.

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

All salaries, fees, and other allowances whatsoever 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.

8. Seal of Corporation

(1)The seal of the Corporation shall be affixed by the Chairman, Vice-Chairman or the General Manager and witnessed by one other member of the Board.
(2)All contracts, guarantees, agreement, 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.

9. Board may act notwithstanding vacancy

Subject to the provisions of any regulations relating to quorum made under subparagraph (6) of paragraph 6, the Board may act notwithstanding any vacancy in its membership 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.

10. 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.

11. 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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