(1)
The Rules Committee may, by statutory instrument, make rules for regulating the practice and procedure of the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeal and the High Court of Uganda and for all other courts in Uganda subordinate to the High Court.
(2)
Without prejudice to the general application of subsection (1), the Rules Committee may make rules of court under that subsection for-
(a)
regulating the sittings of the High Court and of its judges in court or in chambers;
(b)
regulating vacations and hearings during vacations by judges of the High Court of all such applications as may be required to be immediately or promptly heard;
(c)
prescribing what part of the business which may be transacted or the jurisdiction which may be exercised by judges of the High Court may be transacted or exercised by registrars or other officers of the court;
(d)
regulating the issue, signature, service, and enforcement of service, of summonses, notices, warrants and other processes;
(e)
regulating and prescribing the method of pleading, practice and procedure of the court, including all matters connected with forms to be used and fees to be paid;
(f)
regulating the procedure in suits by way of counterclaim and valuation of such suits for the purposes of jurisdiction;
(g)
regulating the consolidation of suits, appeals and other proceedings;
(h)
regulating the means by which particular facts may be proved in or in connection with, or at any stage of, any proceedings in the High Court and the mode in which all particular facts may be given in or in connection with, or at any stage of, any such proceedings;
(i)
prescribing forms and the manner of keeping, and the custody, disposal or destruction of court records, including records of evidence in court, archives and exhibits;
(j)
regulating the procedure in claims by a defendant for contributionor indemnity against any person, whether a party to the suit or not;
(k)
regulating the summary procedure for the recovery of debts, liquidated damages or immovable property;
(l)
regulating the procedure of originating summons;
(m)
regulating the procedure for the grant of probate and letters of administration and for securing the due administration of estates, including requiring the filing of accounts by administrators of estates;
(n)
regulating the ascertainment of values of estates;
(o)
regulating the payment, receipt, accounting and custody of fines, fees and deposits received by the court;
(p)
regulating and prescribing the scales of fees and allowances or expenses payable to parties, witnesses, assessors, interpreters and other persons engaged in proceedings before the court;
(q)
regulating the procedure in garnishee and charging orders, either in addition to or in substitution for the attachment and sale of property;
(r)
regulating and prescribing the procedure of appeals to the High Court or transfers of proceedings from magistrates courts to the High Court or from the High Court to magistrates courts;
(s)
regulating any matter relating to the cost of proceedings in the High Court;
(t)
regulating the arrest of absconding debtors and the giving of security for their release;
(u)
regulating or prescribing the maintenance and custody, while under attachment, of livestock and other movable property, the fees payable for such maintenance and custody, the sale of such livestock and property and proceeds of the sale;
(v)
regulating and prescribing the functions of officers of the court;
(w)
prescribing and regulating the appointment and functions of court brokers and other agents of the court, their fees and expenses;
(x)
regulating and prescribing the duties and procedure of referees and arbitrators; and
(y)
regulating anything for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions and principles of this Act in relation to the courts.
(3)
Rules made under this section relating to fees, charges, allowances and other financial matters shall be made only with the concurrence of the Minister responsible for finance.
(4)
Rules of court made under this section shall apply to all proceedings by or against the State.
(5)
An instrument made under this section shall be laid before Parliament and be subject to annulment by Parliament and shall cease to have effect when so annulled but without prejudice to anything done under it or the making of a further instrument.