Specified Goods (Conveyance) Act (Chapter 359)

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This is the latest version of this legislation commenced on 31 Dec 2000.

Uganda

Specified Goods (Conveyance) Act

Chapter 359

  • Commenced on 30 July 1964

  • [This is the version of this document at 31 December 2000.]
  • [Note: The version of the Act as at 31 December 2000 was revised and consolidated by the Law Reform Commission of Uganda. All subsequent amendments have been researched and applied by Laws.Africa for ULII.]


An Act to provide for the control of the means of conveyance of certain goods to and from the Republics of the Sudan, the Congo and Rwanda.


1. Carriage of certain goods

(1)Notwithstanding any other written law, any person or the agent of any person who imports or exports any goods specified in the Schedule to this Act shall do so as prescribed by regulations made by the Minister under this Act.
(2)The Minister may, by statutory instrument, declare that subsection (1) and regulations made under this Act shall cease to have effect in respect of any route prescribed under those regulations for any such period as may be stated in the regulations.
(3)An instrument made under subsection (2) may contain such other directions or conditions as the Minister may deem fit.
(4)For the avoidance of doubt, it is declared that any goods mentioned in the Schedule to this Act shall be deemed to be restricted goods.
(5)The Minister may, by statutory order, amend the Schedule to this Act.

2. Regulations

The Minister may, by statutory instrument, make regulations prescribing—

(a)the routes on which any goods specified in the Schedule to this Act may be conveyed in or out of Uganda;
(b)the method of payment of railway charges under this Act,

and generally giving full effect to the provisions and purposes of this Act.


Schedule (Section 1(4))

Restricted goods

CoffeeTeaPetroleum products and lubricants excluding high octane aviation spirit