1. Interpretation
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires
"buyer" means any person who holds a buyer's licence issued under this Act;
"buyer's licence" means a licence issued under section 5 ;
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of livestock and entomology;
"currency point" has the value assigned to it in the Schedule to this Act;
"exporter" means any person duly licensed under this Act to export hides or skins or hides and skins;
"exporters-buyers licence" means a licence issued under section 9 ;
"green hide" or "green skin" means a hide or skin which is not partly or wholly dried, salted, pickled or tanned;
"ground dried" in relation to a hide or skin means dried by any method in which the hide or skin is in contact with the ground;
"hide" means a properly dried cattle hide;
"licensing officer" means the Minister or such other person or authority as may be authorised by the Minister, by statutory order, to issue licences under this Act;
"preparation" includes the processes of flaying, cleansing, fleshing, salting or drying, or any other prescribed process, and "prepared" and "prepare" shall be construed accordingly;
"properly dried" means, in relation to a ground or suspension dried hide or skin, one which when protected from the rain and freely suspended under an impervious roof for twenty-four hours will not lose more than three percent of its weight, at the time of suspension, by evaporation of water;
"region" means any area of Uganda declared to be a region under section 2 ;
"skin" means a properly dried skin of a calf, goat or sheep;
"suspension dried" in relation to a hide or skin means dried by a prescribed method of suspension drying;
"veterinary officer" means any member of the department of veterinary services and animal industry or any other person authorised by the Commissioner to act as a veterinary officer for the purposes of this Act.
Section analysis Source linked
This section supplies the definitions or statutory meaning governing “Interpretation”.
“In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires "buyer" means any person who holds a buyer's licence issued under this Act;”
Use this definition when interpreting other provisions that employ the language addressed by “Interpretation”.
Operative requirements extracted from the consolidated text.
- "buyer's licence" means a licence issued under section 5;
- "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of livestock and entomology;
- "currency point" has the value assigned to it in the Schedule to this Act;
- "exporter" means any person duly licensed under this Act to export hides or skins or hides and skins;
- "exporters-buyers licence" means a licence issued under section 9;
- "green hide" or "green skin" means a hide or skin which is not partly or wholly dried, salted, pickled or tanned;
- "ground dried" in relation to a hide or skin means dried by any method in which the hide or skin is in contact with the ground;
- "hide" means a properly dried cattle hide;
7 further items remain in the statutory text above.
Express propositions in source-matched passages from judgments citing this section.
No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.
No section-specific note is recorded. Act-level consolidation history:
- [Amended by Law Revision (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act, 2023 (Act 17 of 2023) on 28 July 2023]
Act-level history only · Do not infer that every amendment changed this section