Cantonments Act (Chapter 296)
Uganda
Cantonments Act
Chapter 296
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Commenced on 15 May 1908
- [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.]
In this Act— 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. 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. 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. If within a cantonment or within such limits around a cantonment as the President may, by proclamation, prescribe in this behalf— has in his or her possession except on behalf of the Government or for the private use of an officer more than one quart of any spirituous liquor other than fermented malt liquor 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 in the case of a first offence against this section to a fine not exceeding one hundred shillings, and in the case of a subsequent offence against this section to a fine not exceeding two hundred shillings or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.
1. Interpretation
2. Establishment of cantonment
3. Cantonment magistrate
4. Cantonment police
5. Unauthorised sale of spirituous liquor or intoxicating drug
6. Unauthorised possession of spirituous liquor
7. Arrest of persons and seizure and confiscation of things
8. Saving of articles sold or supplied for medicinal purposes
9. Penalty not to be in substitution for other penalty incurred
10. Power to exclude persons
11. Penalty for disobeying notice
12. Revocation of notice