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Parliament of Uganda

Cantonments Act

The officer commanding troops in a cantonment may, by written notice and subject to the President's directions, order any person excluded from the cantonment. If a person excluded by notice does n…

Jurisdiction: Uganda
Structure: 12 provisions
Citation: Chapter 296
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“Defines "intoxicating drug" to include opium, ganja, bhang, charas and their preparations and admixtures, and permits the President to declare other substances or liquids to be intoxicating drugs by statutory order.”

The officer commanding troops in a cantonment may, by written notice and subject to the President's directions, order any person excluded from the cantonment. If a person excluded by notice does not leave or enters the cantonment after notice, they may be arrested without warrant and on conviction face a fine of one hundred shillings or up to one month imprisonment. The officer commanding troops in a cantonment may at any time revoke or cancel such notice. Defines "intoxicating drug" to include opium, ganja, bhang, charas and their preparations and admixtures, and permits the President to declare other substances or liquids to be intoxicating drugs by statutory order. The President may, by proclamation, declare places where Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces are quartered to be cantonments and shall, by proclamation, define their limits.

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1. Interpretation

Defines "intoxicating drug" to include opium, ganja, bhang, charas and their preparations and admixtures, and permits the President to declare other substances or liquids to be intoxicating drugs by statutory order.

Section 1

12. Revocation of notice

The officer commanding troops in a cantonment may at any time revoke or cancel such notice.

Section 12

4. Cantonment police

The officer commanding troops in a cantonment may appoint cantonment police; those officers are not part of general police organisation but may exercise police powers within the cantonment and may not act outside it except in fresh pursuit;…

Section 4

6. Unauthorised possession ofspirituous liquor

Title: Unauthorised possession of spirituous liquor.

Section 6

9. Penalty not to be in substitution for other penalty incurred

A penalty imposed under this Act is additional to, and not a substitute for, any other penalty to which an offender may be liable.

Section 9

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§ 11. InterpretationInterpretation

Section 1. Interpretation Section " intoxicating drug " means opium, ganja, bhang, charas and every preparation and admixture thereof, and includes any other intoxicating substance or liquid which the President may, by statutory order, declare to be an intoxicating drug for the purposes of this Act;

Section 1

§ 1010. Power to exclude personsProvision

The officer commanding troops in a cantonment may, by written notice and subject to the President's directions, order any person excluded from the cantonment.

Section 10. Power to exclude persons Section The officer acting as officer commanding troops in a cantonment may, subject to any direction of the President, by notice in writing under his or her hand direct the exclusion of any person from the cantonment.

Section 10

§ 1111. Penalty for disobeying noticeOffence

If a person excluded by notice does not leave or enters the cantonment after notice, they may be arrested without warrant and on conviction face a fine of one hundred shillings or up to one month imprisonment.

Section 11. Penalty for disobeying notice Section If, after such notice has been delivered to a person, the person so excluded does not, if within the cantonment, immediately leave the cantonment or, if without the cantonment, enters the cantonment, he or she may be arrested without warrant and commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of one hundred shillings, or in default of payment to imprisonment for a period not exceeding one month.

Section 11

§ 1212. Revocation of noticeOffence

The officer commanding troops in a cantonment may at any time revoke or cancel such notice.

Section 12. Revocation of notice Section The officer acting as officer commanding troops in a cantonment may at any time revoke or cancel such notice, but until so revoked or cancelled, the notice shall be deemed to be in full force and effect, notwithstanding that the person to whom it is addressed may have been punished for an offence under it.

Section 12

§ 22. Establishment of cantonmentProvision

The President may, by proclamation, declare places where Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces are quartered to be cantonments and shall, by proclamation, define their limits.

Section 2. Establishment of cantonment Section The President may, by proclamation, declare any place within Uganda in which any body of the Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces is quartered to be a cantonment for the purposes of this Act, and shall also by proclamation define the limits of any such cantonment for the like purposes.

Section 2

§ 33. Cantonment magistrateProvision

In every cantonment, an officer of the Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces shall be appointed as a magistrate; that officer may be appointed either individually by name or generally by reference to his or her office.

Section 3. Cantonment magistrate Section In every cantonment an officer of the Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces shall be appointed as a magistrate, and that officer may be appointed either individually by name or generally by reference to his or her office.

Section 3

§ 44. Cantonment policeProvision

Section 4. Cantonment police Section 4(1) The officer acting as the officer commanding troops in a cantonment may appoint such officers or militants under his or her command as he or she shall think fit to act as cantonment police officers for the purposes and within the limits of the cantonment. Section 4(2) Those cantonment police officers shall not form part of nor be subject to any provisions governing the interior economy or organisation of a police force contained in any Act of Parliament, statutory instrument or other written law, but within the limits of the cantonment they may exercise all or any of the powers conferred upon police officers by the Criminal Procedure Code Act or any other written law, so far as the circumstances shall admit; they may not act as police officers without the limits of the cantonment except in fresh pursuit of a person who has committed a crime within the limits of the cantonment. Section 4(3) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to affect or limit the powers of a police officer within the cantonment.

Section 4

§ 55. Unauthorised sale ofspirituous liquororintoxicating drugOffence

It is an offence to knowingly sell, barter, supply or attempt to do so of spirituous liquor or intoxicating drugs to militants or their followers/spouses within a cantonment area without written permission of the commanding officer or an authorised person.

Section 5. Unauthorised sale ofspirituous liquororintoxicating drug Section If within a cantonment or within such limits around a cantonment as the President may, by proclamation, prescribe in this behalf, any person not subject to military law or any person subject to military law otherwise than as an officer or militant knowingly barters, sells or supplies, or offers or attempts to barter, sell or supply any spirituous liquor or intoxicating drug to or for the use of any militant, or to or for the use of any person being a follower or the spouse of a militant, without the written permission of the commanding officer of the cantonment or of some person authorised by the commanding officer to grant such permission, he or she commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding two hundred shillings or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months, or to both such fine and imprisonment.

Section 5

§ 66. Unauthorised possession ofspirituous liquorProvision

Title: Unauthorised possession of spirituous liquor.

Section 6. Unauthorised possession ofspirituous liquor Section any person subject to military law otherwise than as an officer or militant; or

Section 6

§ 77. Arrest of persons and seizure and confiscation of thingsOffence

Police officers may, without a magistrate's order or a warrant, arrest persons found committing offences against section 5 or 6 and may seize and detain spirituous liquor, intoxicating drugs, and their vessels or coverings; with written magistrate permission and when a prior conviction exists an officer may seize such items within specified limits; and a convicting court may order confiscation of seized items.

Section 7. Arrest of persons and seizure and confiscation of things Section 7(1) Any police officer may, without an order from a magistrate and without a warrant, arrest any person whom he or she finds committing an offence against either section 5 or 6 , and may seize and detain any spirituous liquor or intoxicating drug in respect of which such an offence has been committed and any vessels or coverings in which the liquor or drug is contained. Section 7(2) Where a person accused of an offence against section 5 has been previously convicted of an offence against that section, any police officer may, with the written permission of a magistrate, seize and detain any spirituous liquor or intoxicating drug within the cantonment, or within the limits prescribed under that section, which at the time of the alleged commission of the subsequent offence belonged to, or was in the possession of, the person. Section 7(3) The court convicting a person of an offence against section 5 or 6 may order the confiscation of the whole or any part of anything seized under subsection (1) or (2). Section 7(4) Subject to sections 129 and 130 of the Trial on Indictments Act, anything seized under subsection (1) or (2) and not confiscated under subsection (3) shall be restored to the person from whom it was taken.

Section 7

§ 88. Saving of articles sold or supplied for medicinal purposesProvision

Sections 1 to 7 do not apply to the sale or supply of any article for medicinal purposes by a medical practitioner, chemist or druggist.

Section 8. Saving of articles sold or supplied for medicinal purposes Section Sections 1 to 7 shall not apply to the sale or supply of any article for medicinal purposes by a medical practitioner, chemist or druggist.

Section 8

§ 99. Penalty not to be in substitution for other penalty incurredSubstitution

A penalty imposed under this Act is additional to, and not a substitute for, any other penalty to which an offender may be liable.

Section 9. Penalty not to be in substitution for other penalty incurred Section Any penalty imposed by or under the provisions of this Act shall be in addition to, and not in substitution for, any other penalty to which an offender may have rendered himself or herself liable.

Section 9

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Trial on Indictments Act
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Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces is quartered to be a cantonment for the purposes of this Act
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