The direct answer
A Liverpool apostille for Tanzania does not work on its own, and the honest answer is worth stating plainly before anything else on this page: Tanzania has not joined the Hague Convention, so a UK certificate is only part of what a document needs, not the whole of it, whatever kind of paper is involved.
That single fact reshapes everything that follows. Where a Hague destination would treat a UK apostille as the finish, Tanzania's own system expects an additional check afterwards, handled through its own diplomatic channel rather than by the Legalisation Office, and the rest of this page walks through both halves in turn.
Why membership status is what decides it
The United Kingdom has belonged to the Hague Convention since 1965, which is why the UK end of any document's journey works identically regardless of where the paper is going. Tanzania simply has not signed the same treaty, and that single fact is the entire reason this route needs an extra part that a Hague corridor would never require of a sender.
It is not a workaround, a delay, or a formality either country could waive; it reflects how Tanzania's own authorities have chosen to check foreign documents, independent of anything the UK does on its side. Comparing this to a Hague route is comparing two different systems rather than a fast version and a slow one, and no amount of extra postage or a faster UK tier changes which system a given destination uses, however much a sender might wish otherwise.
What still happens from Liverpool
A civil record — birth, marriage or death — can start with a fresh certified copy from Liverpool Register Office, St George's Hall, St George's Place, Liverpool L1 1JJ, rather than risking the household's only original in the post. Anything else, a degree or a company paper among them, skips that step entirely and moves straight on to the very next one right away.
Either way, the next stop is the FCDO Legalisation Office, the sole UK body that checks a signature or seal and attaches its certificate. This part of the process is unaffected by Tanzania's status; it runs exactly as it would for any other country's paperwork, and staff there have no way of knowing, or needing to know, where the paper is ultimately headed.
What that UK part costs and takes
£45 per record on the standard postal tier, or £40 on the next working day tier for a registered business, are the figures for this part specifically. Turnaround runs up to 25 working days, a window that already includes postage each way rather than counting only the days spent on paperwork at the office itself.
An apostille issued in Liverpool for use in Tanzania is priced no differently from an apostille for any other country at this point in the route — the cost and turnaround above have nothing to do with the destination and everything to do with the UK stage alone, whether the paper is bound for a Hague country or somewhere else entirely.
What those figures do not include
Neither the £45 fee nor the 25-working-day window includes what comes after: a document legalisation for Tanzania route needs a further, separate arrangement through Tanzania's own diplomatic channel, priced and timed on its own terms rather than folded into the UK figures above, and no faster UK tier changes that second timetable at all.
Translation is a third, entirely unrelated matter again, decided by the specific use rather than by either part of this process. Where it is genuinely needed, it is arranged and paid for separately, alongside the two parts described above rather than replacing either one of them, and it does not shorten either window at any point.