The Tanzania Telecommunications Corporation Act

A member serves for the term set by the appointing authority, or for three years if no term is set, and may resign by written notice to that authority.

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Jurisdiction: Tanzania
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Citation: The Tanzania Telecommunications Corporation Act
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Language: en
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A member serves for the term set by the appointing authority, or for three years if no term is set, and may resign by written notice to that authority. If a member leaves office early, the President or Minister may appoint someone else to serve for the rest of the original term. The Minister may remove a Board member for specified grounds, including incompetence, misconduct, absence from three consecutive meetings, failure to disclose an interest, inability to perform office functions, or certain convictions. The Board must meet at least once every three months. The Chairman must preside at meetings and can call special meetings, including on a written request from a majority of members in office. The Board may co-opt a person to attend its meeting when it thinks this is necessary for efficient performance of its functions, but that person has no right to vote.

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Short title
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AI-assisted research summary: A member serves for the term set by the appointing authority, or for three years if no term is set, and may resign by written notice to that authority.

1.–(1) A member shall, unless his appointment is sooner terminated by the appointing authority, or he ceases in any other way to be a member, hold office for the period specified by the appointing authority in the instrument of his appointment or, if no period is so specified for a period of three years from the date of his appointment, and shall be eligible for reappointment for one further term. 416 ©2025 Government of Tanzania. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or distributed without permission of OAG. THE TANZANIA TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION ACT [CAP. 304 R.E. 2023] Casual vacancies Termination of appointment Meetings (2) Any member may, at any time, resign from his office by giving notice in writing addressed to the appointing authority, and from the date specified in the notice or, if no date is so specified, from the date of the receipt of the notice by the appointing authority, he shall cease to be a member.
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Application
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AI-assisted research summary: If a member leaves office early, the President or Minister may appoint someone else to serve for the rest of the original term.

2. Where any member ceases to be a member before the normal expiration of his term of office, the President or Minister as the case may be, may appoint another person in his place to hold office until the time when such first-named person’s term of office would have expired had he not so ceased to be a member.
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Interpretation
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AI-assisted research summary: The Minister may remove a Board member for specified grounds, including incompetence, misconduct, absence from three consecutive meetings, failure to disclose an interest, inability to perform office functions, or certain convictions.

3. The Minister may remove a member of the Board- (a) if information relating to the conduct of a member, which could have precluded his appointment if it had been made available to the Minister, is brought to the attention of the Minister; (b) for incompetence; (c) for misbehavior or misconduct; (d) for absence from or non-attendance of three consecutive meetings of the Board; (e) for failure to disclose, at a Board meeting, a matter in which he has an interest; (f) for inability to perform the functions of his office arising from infirmity of body or mind; or (g) who has been convicted of an offence and sentenced to imprisonment by a competent court in Tanzania or outside Tanzania.
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Establishment of Corporation
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AI-assisted research summary: The Board must meet at least once every three months. The Chairman must preside at meetings and can call special meetings, including on a written request from a majority of members in office.

4.–(1) The Board shall ordinarily meet for the transaction of business at the times and at the places decided upon by the Board, but shall meet at least once in every three months. (2) The Chairman, or in his absence any other member elected by members to preside on behalf of the Chairman, may at any time call a special meeting of the Board, and shall call a special meeting upon a written request by a majority of the members in office. (3) The Chairman, or in his absence the member elected amongst the members, shall preside at every meeting of the Board. Co-opted member
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Application of Public Corporations Act
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AI-assisted research summary: The Board may co-opt a person to attend its meeting when it thinks this is necessary for efficient performance of its functions, but that person has no right to vote.

5. The Board may, for efficient execution of its functions and where it considers necessary, co-opt any person to attend its meeting except that, such person shall not have a right to vote. Quorum, procedure and decision of Board
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Functions of Corporation
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AI-assisted research summary: Board meetings need a quorum of four members, questions are decided by majority vote, and the presiding person gets a casting vote if votes are tied.

6.–(1) The quorum at any meeting of the Board shall be four members. (2) Questions proposed at a meeting of the Board shall be decided by a majority of the votes of the members present and voting and in the event of an equality of votes, the person presiding shall have a second or casting vote. 417 ©2025 Government of Tanzania. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or distributed without permission of OAG. THE TANZANIA TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION ACT [CAP. 304 R.E. 2023] (3) Notwithstanding subparagraph (2), a decision may be made by the Board without a meeting by circulation of relevant papers among the members, and the expression of the views of the majority of the members in writing, but any member shall be entitled to require that the decision be deferred and the subject matter be considered at a meeting of the Board.
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Board of Directors
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AI-assisted research summary: The Board must keep minutes of all its meetings and have each meeting’s minutes confirmed at the next meeting and signed by the Chairman.

7.–(1) The Board shall cause to be recorded and kept minutes of all proceedings of its meetings, and the minutes of each meeting shall be confirmed by the Board at the next meeting and signed by the Chairman of the meeting. (2) When confirmed pursuant to subparagraph (1), the minutes shall be prima facie evidence in any court or inquiry that the proceedings as recorded in the minutes were the proceedings and decision of that meeting.
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Duties of Board
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AI-assisted research summary: At a Board meeting, the majority vote of members present and voting counts as the Board’s decision. If votes are tied, the Chairman has a casting vote in addition to his own vote.

8. At any meeting of the Board a decision of the majority of the members present and voting shall be deemed to be a decision of the Board and in the event of an equality of votes, the Chairman of the meeting shall have a casting vote in addition to his deliberative vote.
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Minister may direct Board
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AI-assisted research summary: The Board may act even if there is a vacancy in its membership, as long as paragraph 6(1) quorum rules are satisfied.

9.–(1) Subject to paragraph 6(1) as to quorum, the Board may act notwithstanding any vacancy in the membership. (2) The validity of any act or other proceedings of the Board shall not be affected by any vacancy among its members, or by any defect in the appointment of any of them.
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Powers of Board
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AI-assisted research summary: The Board may regulate its own procedure, but only subject to this Schedule and any directions from the Minister.

10. Subject to the provisions of this Schedule and to any directions given by the Minister, the Board may regulate its own procedure. Minutes of meeting Decision of Board Vacancies not to invalidate proceedings Board may regulate its own procedure 418 ©2025 Government of Tanzania. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or distributed without permission of OAG.

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