PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS AMENDMENT ACT, 2015, 2015

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Short title: 

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS AMENDMENT ACT, 2015

Date of assent: 

6 December 2015

Date of promulgation: 

1 October 2015

Date of commencement: 

1 October 2015

THE REPUBLIC OF UGANDA

 
 

 

THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2015

Act No. 14

 

ACTS

SUPPLEMENT No. 9                                                                          1st October, 2015.

ACTS SUPPLEMENT

to The Uganda Gazette No. 57, Volume CVIII, dated 1st October, 2015.

Printed by UPPC, Entebbe, by Order of the Government

Act 14         Presidential Elections (Amendment) Act      2015

THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2015

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section

L Amendment of the Presidential Elections Act, 2005.

  1. Amendment of section 21 of the principal Act,
  2. Amendment of section 22 of the principal Act.
  3. Amendment of section 30 of the principal Act.
  4. Amendment of section 43 of the principal Act.

 

THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS (AMENDMENT) ACT,

2015.

An Act to amend the Presidential Elections Act, 2005 to revise the nomination fees payable under the Act; to provide for polling to close at 4.00 pm on polling day, to remove the requirement for Government to facilitate presidential candidates; to remove the requirement for a candidate to campaign in every district of Uganda; and to provide for related matters.

DATE OF ASSENT: 1st October, 2015.

Date of Commencement: 1st October, 2015.

Be it enacted by Parliament as follows:

  1. Amendment of the Presidential Elections Act, 2005.

The Presidential Elections Act, 2005, in this Act referred to as the principal Act is amended in section 10(6)(b), by substituting for the words “four hundred”, the words “one thousand”.

  1. Amendment of section 21 of the principal Act.

Section 21 of the principal Act is amended in subsection (1) by repealing the words “giving at least one day in each district”.

  1. Amendment of section 22 of the principal Act

Section 22 of the principal Act is amended by repealing subsections (2) and (7)(a).

 

  1. Amendment of section 30 of the principal Act.

Section 30 of the principal Act is amended in subsection (2) by substituting for the word “five”, the word “four”.

  1. Amendment of section 43 of the principal Act.

Section 43 of the principal Act is amended by inserting immediately after subsection (2), the following—

“(3) For the purposes of this section, deadly weapon has the meaning assigned to it in section 286 of the Penal Code Act.”

 

 

 

Cross reference

The Penal Code Act, Cap, 120