David, this is in response to your post re REGISTRATION.
Excellent work on your part, thank you. BRELA stands for
Business Registrations and Licensing Agency (BRELA). And here is what they say below on their "About Us" page, I added some highlights:
www.brela-tz.org/about.php
About us
INTRODUCTION: Profile and General Information
Market economy, is by and large a catalyst to sustainable economic development as it breeds and nutures competition in the markets for both goods and services. Competition in turn leads to product and systems innovations for better quality products and services in the market and also value for money, all for the benefit of consumers. Market economy unregulated and unfacilitated breeds chaos and social economic anarchy.
Regulation and facilitation therefore, are a necessary ingredient for a vibrant, sustainable and effective market economy. The two activities are responsible for the refereeing and provision of level field in which participants in the market economy compete.
In other words regulatory and facilitatory mechanisms in the market economy arena are responsible for the fair play of all players in the market.
In recognising this fundamental requirement, as our society gallops towards market economy, the government as part of its civil service reform has decided to establish Government Executive Agencies, among others is the Business Registrations and Licensing Agency (BRELA).
WHAT IS BRELA
BRELA is a Government Executive Agency established under the Government Executive Agencies Act No. 30 of 1997.
It was established on the 28th of October, 1999 by Government Notice No. 294 A published on the 8th October, 1999 and it was officially inaugurated on the 3rd December, 1999.
AIM, ROLE AND STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES
Aim
The aim of the Agency is to ensure that businesses operate in accordance with the laid down regulations and sound commercial principles.
Roles
The specific roles include the following:
* To administer companies and business names laws.
* To regulate business by administering business and industrial licensing laws.
* To administer intellectual property laws.
* To encourage and facilitate local and foreign business investment.
* To stimulate scientific and technological inventiveness and innovation and encourage technology transfer.
* To protect the development of creativity in artistic, literary works, and expression of folklore by protecting such work in conjunction with rights owners.
I also did some name searches. They have databases for company names and business names. Here are results for both:
Company name: church
Company Registration # Company Name Date Of Incorporation Type of Registration
36 CHURCH MISSIONARY TRUST ASSOCIATIATION LIMITED 12/12/2028 struck off
30187 TABATA CHURCH HEALTH SERVICES LTD 25/06/1996
32235 CHRISTS ABUNDANCE CHURCH LIMITED 01/07/1997
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business names: church
Business Name Registration # Business Name Date Of Registration Type of Registration
57437 ELCT/KARAGWE CHURCH BOOK SHOP 29/03/1984 sole proprietor
57676 AFRICAN INLAND CHURCH BOOKSHOP] 9/2/1984 sole proprietor
99144 TANZANIA MONONITE CHURCH DISPENSAR 27/08/1993 partnership
100267 TEMEKE CHURCH HEALTH SERVICES 24/11/1993 partnership
105052 MORAVIAN CHURCH KIGOGO DISPENSARY 25/01/1995 partnership
116688 UHURU MORAVIAN CHURCH WOMENT GROUP 2/4/1998 partnership
147268 MAGOMENI LUTHERAN CHURCH HOSTEL 18/06/2004
156921 TABATA SDA CHURCH WOMEN GROUP 30/01/2006 partnership
159276 AIRPORT CHURCH DISPENSARY 23/05/2006 partnership
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You will notice none of these appear to be strictly a church name. These are business/commercial operations associated with churches. I also highlighted above showing that BRELA handles only BUSINESS licensing. Churches, that are operating strictly as churches (ie no business/commercial/selling), are NOT businesses. Churches take in voluntary donations and use the money for religious purposes.
In the field of law, there is a fundamental legal difference between church activity and business activity. Businesses sell things, they exchange one thing for another thing (eg money), in a transaction. Churches do not transact business. They take in voluntary donations and they provide religious services.
I do not have the actual laws that give BRELA its jurisdiction before me, but based on what they say on their site and based on the names of entities they have in their databases, they do not register churches, that operate as real churches based on donations. If a church gets involved in a business by selling something, then they would fall under BRELA jurisdiction.
There are usually plenty of government agencies that regulate "commerce" but that means only businesses. They have no jurisdiction over churches. There may not be any government agency licensing churches.
And since you will not be selling the MMS, there should be no need to get it approved. If you have an agency like the FDA, then they only have jurisdiction over health products offered for sale to the public. They have no power over you if you are giving MMS away and only accepting purely voluntary donations. So no product approval is necessary.
Thank you also for your other post about the persecution of the Babu. That is something we definitely should learn all we can from. That shows us just what enemy we are up against. When you start using MMS on people, you will get lines of people just like he has. So we need to be ready for the enemy and lay the groundwork for those battles right now. Please do send me good pics of the newspaper articles to my personal email address
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Thank you for all your work on this David, and thank you for letting me be a part of it.
Michael
PS: Earlier this morning I sent you a private email to your zanzibarmagic gmail account, just want to make sure you got it.