Tanzania Country Profile - Legal Frameworks

Domestic Legislation:

• Prevention of Corruption Act, 1971;
• The Prevention and Combating Corruption Act, 2007;
• Proceeds of Crime Act, 1991;
• Anti-money Laundering Act, 2006;
• Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act, 1991 ; and
• Fugitive Offenders Act (Act No. 1 of 1969); and
• Extradition Act, 1965.

Regional Treaties:

• African (AU) Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption;
• SADC Protocol against Corruption (2002);
• The SADC Protocol on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters (2002); and
• The Memorandum of Understanding among members of the ESAAMLG.

International Treaties:

• UNCAC (ratified May 2005);
• Scheme relating to mutual assistance in criminal matters within the Commonwealth (including amendments made by Law Ministers in April 1990, November 2002 and October 2005);
• The London Scheme for Extradition within the Commonwealth (incorporating the amendments agreed at Kingstown in November 2002);
• United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (signed December 2000, ratified May 2006). This Convention requires member states to criminalize participation in an organised criminal group and the laundering of the proceeds of crime, to criminalise corruption and to adopt measures to combat it, to freeze, confiscate and forfeit assets, to extradite offenders, to render mutual assistance in transnational criminal matters and to foster international cooperation in law enforcement.