Magistrates Courts Act

1. "currency point" has the value assigned to it in Schedule 1 to this Act;
2. "magisterial area" means any one of the areas into which Uganda is for the time being divided under section 2;
3. "magistrate's court" means any court established by or under section 3;
4. "Minister" means the Minister responsible for justice.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. The Chief Justice may, acting on the advice of the Judiciary Council and by statutory instrument, designate magisterial areas and magistrates courts for the purposes of this Act

Citing judgments are indexed, but no express interpretive proposition has yet passed the passage-verification threshold. Open Judicial treatment for the citing passages.

This section states a single governing proposition and does not enumerate separate elements.

1. (1) There shall be appointed such number of magistrates of such rank as the Chief Justice shall, in consultation with the Judiciary Council and in accordance with the approved structure of the Judiciary, determine.
2. (2) Magistrates shall be of the following ranks-
3. (a) chief magistrate; and
4. (b) magistrate.
5. (3) The power and jurisdiction of a chief magistrate or magistrate shall be the powers and jurisdiction vested in the chief magistrate or magistrate under this Act and any other written law.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (1) A magistrate's court shall be deemed to be duly constituted when presided over by any one magistrate lawfully empowered to adjudicate in the court.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. Every magistrate appointed under this Act shall be deemed to have been appointed to, and have jurisdiction in, each and every magisterial area but may be assigned to any particular magisterial area or to a part of any magisterial area by the Chief Justice

Citing judgments are indexed, but no express interpretive proposition has yet passed the passage-verification threshold. Open Judicial treatment for the citing passages.

1. (1) A magistrate's court-
2. (a) may be held at any place within the local limits of its jurisdiction; or
3. (b) if it appears to the Chief Justice that the interests of justice so require, may be held, with the written authorisation of the Chief Justice, at a place outside the local limits of its jurisdiction designated in the authorisation, and shall be held in such building as the Chief Justice may assign as the courthouse.
4. (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), if a magistrate's court sits in any building or place within the local limits of its jurisdiction for the transaction of legal business, the proceedings shall be as valid in every respect as if they had been held in a courthouse assigned for that purpose.

Citing judgments are indexed, but no express interpretive proposition has yet passed the passage-verification threshold. Open Judicial treatment for the citing passages.

This section states a single governing proposition and does not enumerate separate elements.

1. The jurisdiction of a magistrate's court shall subject to this Act and any other written law limiting or otherwise relating to the jurisdiction of that court or of the presiding magistrate, be exercised in conformity with the law with which the High Court is required to conform in exercising its jurisdiction by the Judicature Act

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (1) Subject to this section, nothing in this Act shall deprive a magistrate's court of the right to observe and to enforce the observance of, or shall deprive any person of the benefit of, any civil customary law which may be applicable that is not repugnant to justice, equity or good conscience or incompatible either in terms or by necessary implication with any written law for the time being in force.
2. (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), no party to a civil cause or matter shall be entitled to claim the benefit of any civil customary law if it appears, either from express contract or from the nature of the transactions out of which any civil cause or matter shall have arisen, that he or she agreed or must be taken to have agreed that his or her obligations in connection with all such transactions should be regulated exclusively by some law other than civil customary law.
3. (3) In civil causes or matters where no express rule is applicable to any matter in issue, a magistrate's court shall be guided by the principles of justice, equity and good conscience.

Citing judgments are indexed, but no express interpretive proposition has yet passed the passage-verification threshold. Open Judicial treatment for the citing passages.

1. (1) In every civil cause or matter before a magistrate's court, law and equity shall be administered concurrently.
2. (2) A magistrate may, in the exercise of the jurisdiction conferred upon him or her by this or any other enactment, grant absolutely or on such reasonable terms or conditions as seem just, any remedy or relief, whether interlocutory or final, to which any of the parties to the cause or matter may be entitled in respect of any legal or equitable claim or defence properly brought forward or which appears in such cause or matter, so that as far as possible all matters in dispute between the parties may be completed and finally decided and all multiplicity of legal proceedings concerning such matters avoided.
3. (3) If in any cause or matter there is a conflict or variance between the rules of equity and the rules of common law with reference to the same subject, the rules of equity shall prevail.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (1) Whenever a chief magistrate or a magistrate grade I is informed that any person is likely to commit a breach of the peace or disturb the public tranquillity, or to do any wrongful act that may probably occasion a breach of the peace or disturb the public tranquillity, the magistrate may, in the manner hereafter provided, require that person to show cause why he or she should not be ordered to execute a bond, with or without sureties, for keeping the peace for such period, not exceeding one year, as the magistrate thinks fit to fix.
2. (2) Proceedings shall not be taken under this section unless either the person informed against, or the place where the breach of the peace or the disturbance is apprehended, is within the local limits of that magistrate's jurisdiction.
3. (3) When any magistrate not empowered to proceed under subsection (1) has reason to believe that any person is likely to commit a breach of the peace or disturb the public tranquillity, or to do any wrongful act that may probably occasion a breach of the peace or disturb the public tranquillity, and that such breach of the peace or disturbance cannot be prevented otherwise than by detaining that person in custody, that magistrate may, after recording his or her reasons, issue a warrant for the person's arrest, if he or she is not already in custody or before the court, and may send the person before a magistrate empowered to deal with the case, with a copy of the magistrate's reasons.
4. (4) A magistrate before whom a person is sent under this section may, in his or her discretion, detain the person in custody until the completion of the inquiry hereafter prescribed.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (b) disseminates or attempts to disseminate or in any manner abets the dissemination of any matter concerning a judge which amounts to libel under the Penal Code Act, the magistrate may require that person to show cause why he or she should not be ordered to execute a bond, with or without sureties, for his or her good behaviour for such period, not exceeding one year, as the magistrate thinks fit to fix.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (b) that there is within those limits a person who has no ostensible means of subsistence, or who cannot give a satisfactory account of himself or herself, the magistrate may require that person to show cause why he or she should not be ordered to execute a bond, with sureties, for his or her good behaviour for such period, not exceeding one year, as the magistrate thinks fit to fix.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (b) is by habit a receiver of stolen property, knowing the property to have been stolen;
2. (c) habitually protects or harbours thieves, or aids in the concealment or disposal of stolen property;
3. (d) habitually commits or attempts to commit, or aids or abets in the commission of, any offence punishable under Chapter XXVIII, XXXI or XXXIV of the Penal Code Act;
4. (e) habitually commits or attempts to commit, or aids or abets in the commission of, offences involving a breach of the peace; or
5. (f) is so desperate and dangerous as to render his or her being at large without security, hazardous to the community, the magistrate may require that person to show cause why he or she should not be ordered to execute a bond, with sureties, for his or her good behaviour for such period, not exceeding three years, as the magistrate thinks fit to fix.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (b) the amount of the bond to be executed;
2. (c) the term for which it is to be in force; and
3. (d) the number, character and class of sureties, if any, required.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. If the person in respect of whom that order is made is present in court, it shall be read over to him or her, or, if he or she so desires, the substance of the order shall be explained to him or her

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (1) If that person is not present in court, the magistrate shall issue a summons requiring him or her to appear or, when that person is in custody, a warrant directing the officer in whose custody he or she is to bring him or her before the court.
2. (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), whenever it appears to the magistrate, upon the report of a police officer or upon other information (the substance of which report or information shall be recorded by the magistrate), that there is reason to fear the commission of a breach of the peace, and that the breach of the peace cannot be prevented otherwise than by the immediate arrest of that person, the magistrate may at any time issue a warrant for his or her arrest.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. Every summons or warrant issued under section 18 shall be accompanied by a copy of the order made under section 16, and that copy shall be delivered by the officer serving or executing the summons or warrant to the person served with or arrested under it

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. The magistrate may, if he or she sees sufficient cause, dispense with the personal attendance of any person called upon to show cause why he or she should not be ordered to execute a bond for keeping the peace, and may permit the person to appear by an advocate

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (1) When an order under section 16 has been read or explained under section 17 to a person in court, or when any person appears or is brought before a magistrate in compliance with or in execution of a summons or warrant issued under section 18, the magistrate shall proceed to inquire into the truth of the information upon which the action has been taken, and to take such further evidence as may appear necessary.
2. (2) The inquiry shall be made, as nearly as may be practicable, in the manner prescribed in this Act for conducting trials and recording evidence in trials before magistrates courts.
3. (3) For the purposes of this section, the fact that a person is a habitual (fender may be proved by evidence of general repute or otherwise.
4. (4) Where two or more persons have been associated together in the matter under inquiry, they may be dealt with in the same or separate inquiries as the magistrate thinks just.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (1) If, upon such inquiry, it is proved that it is necessary for keeping the peace or maintaining good behaviour, as the case may be, that the person in respect of whom the inquiry is made should execute a bond, with or without sureties, the magistrate shall make an order accordingly.
2. (2) No person shall be ordered to give security of a nature different from, or of an amount larger than, or for a period longer than, that specified in the order made under section 16.
3. (3) The amount of every bond shall be fixed with due regard to the circumstances of the case and shall not be excessive.
4. (4) When the person in respect of whom the inquiry is made is a minor, the bond shall be executed only by his or her sureties.
5. (5) A person ordered to give security for good behaviour under this section may appeal to the High Court.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (1) If, on an inquiry under section 21, it is not proved that it is necessary for keeping the peace or maintaining good behaviour, as the case may be, that the person in respect of whom the inquiry is made should execute a bond, the magistrate shall make an entry on the record to that effect, and, if that person is in custody only for the purposes of the inquiry, shall release him or her, or, if that person is not in custody, shall discharge him or her.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (1) If any person in respect of whom an order requiring security is made under section 16 or 22 is, at the time the order is made, sentenced to, or undergoing a sentence of, imprisonment, the period for which the security is required shall commence on the expiration of that sentence.
2. (2) In other cases the period shall commence on the date of that order unless the magistrate, for sufficient reason, fixes a later date.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (1) The bond to be executed by any such person shall bind him or her to keep the peace or to be of good behaviour, as the case may be, and the commission or attempt to commit or the aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring the commission of an offence punishable with imprisonment, wherever it may be committed, or in the case where a person has been required to enter into a bond because of the conduct mentioned in section 13(a) or (b), the further dissemination or attempt to disseminate or the abetting of the dissemination of any seditious matter or any matter which is likely, in the opinion of the court, to be dangerous to peace and order within Uganda, shall be a breach of the bond.
2. (2) Whenever a chief magistrate or a magistrate grade I receives information that any person who has executed a bond under section 22 has committed a breach of that bond, he or she shall, by summons or warrant require that person and his or her sureties, if any, to appear before him or her and shall inquire into the truth of the information upon which the summons or warrant was issued in the same manner as provided in section 21 and if satisfied that there has been a breach of the bond, the chief magistrate or magistrate shall declare the amount of the bond to be forfeited and adjudge the persons bound thereby, whether as principal or sureties or any of them, to pay the sum in which they are respectively bound.
3. (3) A magistrate who declares the amount of a bond to be forfeited may, instead of adjudging any person to pay the whole sum in which he or she is bound, adjudge that person to pay part only of the sum or may remit the sum.
4. (4) Payment of any sum adjudged to be paid under this section, including any costs awarded, may be enforced, collected and applied as if it were a fine and as if the adjudication were a conviction.
5. (5) A person aggrieved by an order declaring any bond to be forfeited may appeal to the High Court.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (1) A magistrate may refuse to accept any surety offered under any of the preceding sections of this Part of this Act on the ground that, for reasons to be recorded by the magistrate, the surety is an unfit person.
2. (2) For the purposes of subsection (1), a person with a disability shall not on the basis of disability, be taken to be an unfit person.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (1) If any person ordered to give security as aforesaid does not give that security on or before the date on which the period for which that security is to be given commences, he or she shall, except in the case mentioned in subsection (2), be committed to prison, or, if he or she is already in prison, be detained in prison until that period expires or until within that period he or she gives the security to the magistrate who made the order requiring it.
2. (2) When such person has been ordered by a magistrate to give security for a period exceeding one year, the magistrate shall, if that person does not give such security as aforesaid, issue a warrant directing him or her to be detained in prison pending the order of the High Court, and the proceedings shall be laid as soon as conveniently may be before that court.
3. (3) The High Court, after examining such proceedings and requiring from the magistrate any further information or evidence which it thinks necessary, may make such order in the case as it thinks fit.
4. (4) The period, if any, for which any person is imprisoned for failure to give security shall not exceed three years.
5. (5) If the security is tendered to the officer in charge of the prison, the officer shall forthwith refer the matter to the magistrate who made the order and shall await the orders of that magistrate.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. Whenever a chief magistrate or magistrate grade I is of the opinion that any person imprisoned for failing to give security may be released without hazard to the community, the magistrate may, if he or she thinks fit, order that person to be discharged

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. The High Court may, at any time, for sufficient reasons to be recorded in writing, cancel any bond for keeping the peace or for good behaviour executed under any of the preceding sections by order of any court

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (1) Any surety for keeping the peace or good behaviour of another person may at any time apply to a chief magistrate or a magistrate grade I to cancel any bond executed under any of the preceding sections within the local limits of his or her jurisdiction.
2. (2) On that application being made, the magistrate shall issue a summons or warrant, as he or she thinks fit, requiring the person for whom the surety is bound to appear or to be brought before the magistrate.
3. (3) When that person appears or is brought before the magistrate, the magistrate shall cancel the bond and shall order the person to give, for the unexpired portion of the term of the bond, fresh security of the same description as the original security.
4. (4) Every such order shall, for the purposes of sections 25, 26, 27 and 28 be deemed to be an order made under section 22.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. Every magistrate's court has authority to cause to be brought before it any person who is within the local limits of its jurisdiction and is charged with an offence committed within Uganda, or which according to law may be dealt with as if it had been committed within Uganda, and to deal with the accused person according to its jurisdiction

Citing judgments are indexed, but no express interpretive proposition has yet passed the passage-verification threshold. Open Judicial treatment for the citing passages.

1. Where a person accused of having committed an offence within Uganda has escaped or is removed from the area within which the offence was committed and is found within another area, the magistrate's court within whose jurisdiction the person is found shall cause him or her to be brought before it and shall, unless authorised to proceed in the case, send the person in custody to the court within whose jurisdiction the offence is alleged to have been committed, or require the person to give security for his or her surrender to that court there to answer the charge and to be dealt with according to law

1. (1) Where any person is to be sent in custody in pursuance of section 32, a warrant shall be issued by the court within whose jurisdiction the person is found, and that warrant shall be sufficient authority to any person to whom the warrant is directed to receive and detain the person named in the warrant and to carry the person and deliver him or her up to the court within whose jurisdiction the offence was committed or may be inquired into or tried.
2. (2) The person to whom the warrant is directed shall execute it according to its tenor without delay.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. Subject to the provisions relating to transfer conferred by this Act, every offence shall ordinarily be inquired into or tried by a court within the local limits of whose jurisdiction the offence was committed

1. When a person is accused of the commission of any offence by reason of anything which has been done or of any consequence which has ensued, the offence may be inquired into or tried by a court within the local limits of whose jurisdiction any such thing has been done or any such consequence has ensued

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. When an act is an offence by reason of its relation to any other act which is also an offence or which would be an offence if the doer were capable of committing an offence, a charge of the first-mentioned offence may be inquired into or tried by a court within the local limits of whose jurisdiction either act was done

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (b) an offence is committed partly in one local area and partly in another;
2. (c) an offence is a continuing one and continues to be committed in more local areas than one; or
3. (d) an offence consists of several acts done in different local areas, the offence may be inquired into or tried by a court having jurisdiction over any of those local areas.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. An offence committed while the offender is in the course of performing a journey, voyage or flight may be inquired into or tried by a court through or into the local limits of whose jurisdiction the offender or the person against whom or the thing in respect of which the offence was committed passed in the course of that journey, voyage or flight.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (1) Whenever any doubt arises as to the court by which any offence should be tried, any court entertaining that doubt may, in its discretion, report the circumstances to the High Court, and the High Court shall decide by which court the offence shall be tried.
2. (2) Any such decision of the High Court shall be final and conclusive, except that it shall be open to an accused person to show that no court in Uganda has jurisdiction in the case.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (1) The place in which any criminal court is held for the purpose of trying any offence shall be deemed an open court to which the public generally may have access, so far as the court can conveniently contain them; but the magistrate may, if he or she thinks fit, order at any stage of the inquiry into or trial of any particular case that the public generally or any particular person shall not have access to or be or remain in the room or building used by the court.
2. (2) In particular, the court shall, when conducting a trial of the offence of defilement, consider the need, in the interest of the child, to exercise its power under Article 28(2) of the Constitution, to exclude the press and the public from the proceedings before the court for reasons of morality and to protect the victim of the offence.
3. (3) Any magistrate's court for the purpose of inquiring into or trying any offence may sit on a Sunday or a public holiday, and no finding, sentence or order made or passed by a court of competent jurisdiction shall be reversed or altered only by reason of the fact that it was made or passed on a Sunday or a public holiday; but the court shall not sit on a Sunday or a public holiday unless, in the opinion of the court, the omission to do so would cause an amount of delay, expense or inconvenience which in the circumstances of the case would be unreasonable.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (1) Whenever it is made to appear to the High Court-
2. (a) that a fair and impartial trial or inquiry cannot be had in any magistrate's court;
3. (b) that some question of law of unusual difficulty is likely to arise;
4. (c) that a view of the place in or near which any offence has been committed may be required for the satisfactory inquiry into or trial of the offence;
5. (d) that an order under this section tends to the general convenience of the parties or witnesses; or
6. (e) that such an order is expedient for the ends of justice or is required by any provision of this Act, it may order-
7. (i) that any offence be tried or inquired into by any court not empowered under the preceding sections of this Part of this Act, but in other respects competent to inquire into or try that offence;
8. (ii) that any particular criminal case or class of cases be transferred from a criminal court subordinate to its authority to any other such criminal court of equal or superior jurisdiction;

5 further items remain in the statutory text above.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (1) Criminal proceedings may be instituted in one of the following ways-
2. (a) by a police officer bringing a person arrested with or without a warrant before a magistrate upon a charge;
3. (b) by a public prosecutor or a police officer laying a charge against a person before a magistrate and requesting the issue of a warrant or a summons; or
4. (c) by any person, other than a public prosecutor or a police officer, making a complaint as provided in subsection (3) and applying for the issue of a warrant or a summons in the manner hereafter mentioned.
5. (2) The validity of any proceedings instituted or purported to be instituted under subsection (1) shall not be affected by any defect in the charge or complaint or by the fact that a summons or warrant was issued without any complaint or charge or, in the case of a warrant, without a complaint on oath.
6. (3) A person, other than a public prosecutor or a police officer, who has reasonable and probable cause to believe that an offence has been committed by any person may make a complaint of the alleged offence to a magistrate who has jurisdiction to try or inquire into the alleged offence, or within the local limits of whose jurisdiction the accused person is alleged to reside or be. Every such complaint may be made orally or in writing signed by the complainant, but if made orally shall be reduced into writing by the magistrate and when so reduced shall be signed by the complainant.
7. (4) Upon receiving a complaint under subsection (3), the magistrate shall consult the local chief of the area in which the complaint arose and put on record the gist of that consultation; but where the complaint is supported by a letter from the local chief, the magistrate may dispense with the consultation and thereafter put that letter on record.
8. (5) After satisfying himself or herself that prima facie the commission of an offence has been disclosed and that the complaint is not frivolous or vexatious, the magistrate shall draw up and shall sign a formal charge containing a statement of the offence or offences alleged to have been committed by the accused.

7 further items remain in the statutory text above.

Citing judgments are indexed, but no express interpretive proposition has yet passed the passage-verification threshold. Open Judicial treatment for the citing passages.

1. (1) Where criminal proceedings have been instituted by a person, other than a public prosecutor or a police officer under section 42, the Director of Public Prosecutions may-
2. (a) take over and continue the conduct of those proceedings at any stage before the conclusion of the proceedings;
3. (b) discontinue the prosecution of the proceedings at any stage of an inquiry or a trial before a magistrate's court; and
4. (c) require such person, in relation to those proceedings-
5. (i) to give him or her all reasonable information and assistance; and
6. (ii) to furnish him or her with any documents or other matters and things in the person's possession or under his or her control.
7. (2) Where the prosecution of any proceedings has been discontinued under subsection (1)(b), section 121 shall apply as if there had been a withdrawal from the prosecution under that section.
8. (3) For the purposes of this section, "criminal proceedings" means proceedings before a magistrate's court and before any court by which an appeal may be heard or a power of revision exercised, and criminal proceedings shall not be deemed to be concluded until no further appeal or petition for revision can be made in the course of the proceedings.

Citing judgments are indexed, but no express interpretive proposition has yet passed the passage-verification threshold. Open Judicial treatment for the citing passages.

1. (1) Every summons issued by a magistrate's court under this Act shall be in writing, in duplicate, signed and sealed by the magistrate or by such other officer as the Chief Justice may direct.
2. (2) Every summons shall be directed to the person summoned and shall require him or her to appear at a time and place to be appointed in the summons before a court having jurisdiction to inquire into and deal with the complaint or charge.
3. (3) The summons shall state shortly the offence with which the person against whom the summons is issued, is charged.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (1) Every summons shall be served by a police officer or by an officer of the court issuing it or by other public servant and shall, if practicable, be served personally on the person summoned by delivering or tendering to him or her the duplicate of the summons.
2. (2) Every person on whom a summons is so served shall, if so required by the serving officer, sign for the receipt of the summons on the back of the original summons.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. Where the person summoned cannot, by the exercise of due diligence, be found, the summons may be served by leaving the duplicate for the person with some adult member of his or her family or with his or her servant residing with him or her or with his or her employer; and the person with whom the summons is so left shall, if so required by the serving officer, sign a receipt for it on the back of the original summons

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. If service in the manner provided by sections 45 and 46 cannot, by the exercise of due diligence, be effected, the serving officer shall affix the duplicate of the summons to some conspicuous part of the house or homestead in which the person summoned ordinarily resides, and the summons shall then be deemed to have been duly served

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (1) Where the person summoned is in the active service of the Government or of the East African Community, the court issuing the summons shall ordinarily send the summons in duplicate to the head of the office in which that person is employed, and the head shall cause the summons to be served in the manner provided by section 45, and shall return the summons to the court under his or her signature with the endorsement required by that section.
2. (2) That signature shall be evidence of the service.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. Service of a summons on an incorporated company or other body corporate may be effected by serving it on the secretary, local manager or other principal officer of the corporation or by registered letter addressed to the chief officer of the corporation at the registered office of the company or body corporate in Uganda. In the latter case service shall be deemed to have been effected when the letter would arrive in the ordinary course of post

Citing judgments are indexed, but no express interpretive proposition has yet passed the passage-verification threshold. Open Judicial treatment for the citing passages.

1. A summons may be served at any place in Uganda

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (1) Where the officer who has served a summons is not present at the hearing of the case, and in any case where a summons issued by a court has been served outside the local limits of its jurisdiction, an affidavit purporting to be made before a magistrate that the summons has been served, and the original of the summons purporting to be endorsed in the manner provided in this Act, by the person to whom it was delivered or tendered or with whom it was left, shall be admissible in evidence; and the statements made in the affidavit shall be deemed to be correct unless the contrary is proved.
2. (2) If the original is not endorsed in the manner provided in this Act, the affidavit shall be admissible in evidence if the court is satisfied from the statements made in it that service of the summons has been effected in accordance with this Part.
3. (3) The affidavit mentioned in this section may be attached to the original of the summons and returned to the court.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (1) When a magistrate issues a summons in respect of any offence, other than a felony, the magistrate may, if he or she sees reason to do so, dispense with the personal appearance of the accused, subject to the accused pleading guilty in writing addressed to the court prior to the trial or to his or her appearance at the trial by an advocate.
2. (2) The magistrate inquiring into or trying any case may, in his or her discretion, at any subsequent stage of the proceedings, direct the personal attendance of the accused, and, if necessary, enforce that attendance in a manner hereafter provided; but no such warrant shall be issued unless a complaint or charge has been made upon oath.
3. (3) If a magistrate imposes a fine on an accused person whose personal attendance has been dispensed with under this section, and the fine is not paid within the time prescribed for the payment, the magistrate may forthwith issue a summons calling upon the accused person to show cause why he or she should not be committed to prison for such period as the magistrate may then prescribe.
4. (4) If the accused person does not attend upon the return of the summons, the magistrate may forthwith issue a warrant and commit that person to prison for such period as the magistrate may then fix.
5. (5) If, in any case in which under this section, the attendance of an accused person is dispensed with, previous convictions are alleged against that person and are not admitted in writing or through the person's advocate, the magistrate may adjourn the proceedings and direct the personal attendance of the accused, and, if necessary, enforce that attendance in a manner hereafter provided.
6. (6) Whenever the attendance of an accused has been so dispensed with, and his or her attendance is subsequently required, the cost of any adjournment for that purpose shall be bome in any event by the accused.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (1) Appearance before a magistrate's court by a corporation in criminal proceedings shall be by an advocate or by any officer of the corporation.
2. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in the articles of association, byelaws or other document governing the constitution of the corporation, and notwithstanding anything in any other law contained, an officer appearing in court on behalf of a corporation shall be deemed so to appear with the full authority of the corporation, and to have full power to represent the corporation.

Citing judgments are indexed, but no express interpretive proposition has yet passed the passage-verification threshold. Open Judicial treatment for the citing passages.

1. Notwithstanding the issue of a summons, a warrant may be issued at any time before or after the time appointed in the summons for the appearance of the accused

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (1) If the accused person, other than a corporation, does not appear at the time and place appointed in and by the summons, and his or her personal attendance has not been dispensed with under section 52, the court may issue a warrant to apprehend the accused person and cause him or her to be brought before the court.
2. (2) If a corporation does not appear in the manner provided for under this Act, the court may cause any officer of the corporation to be summoned before it in the manner provided for under this Act for compelling the attendance of witnesses, and if the officer fails to attend, he or she may be dealt with under subsection (1).
3. (3) In this section and in section 53, "officer of the corporation" means any director, any member of the board of management by whatever name or style designated and the secretary.
4. (4) A warrant shall not be issued under this section for the arrest of any person unless the court is satisfied by evidence on oath that the summons directed to that person was duly served.
5. (5) Nothing in this section shall affect the power of a court to deal with a case in the absence of the accused person, whether an individual or a corporation, in the manner provided for by sections 123 and 125.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (1) Every warrant of arrest shall be under the hand of the magistrate issuing it and shall bear the seal of the court.
2. (2) Every warrant shall state shortly the offence with which the person against whom it is issued is charged, and shall name or otherwise describe that person, and it shall order the person or persons to whom it is directed to apprehend the person against whom it is issued and bring him or her before the court issuing the warrant or before some other court having jurisdiction in the case, to answer to the charge mentioned in it and to be further dealt with according to law.
3. (3) Every such warrant shall remain in force until it is executed or until it is cancelled by the court which issued it.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (1) Any magistrate's court issuing a warrant for the arrest of any person in respect of any offence, other than an offence punishable by death, may, in its discretion, direct by endorsement on the warrant that, if that person executes a bond with sufficient sureties for his or her attendance before the court at a specified time and thereafter until otherwise directed by the court, the officer to whom the warrant is directed shall take that security and shall release the person from custody.
2. (2) The endorsement shall state-
3. (a) the number of sureties;
4. (b) the amount in which they and the person for whose arrest the warrant is issued are to be respectively bound; and
5. (c) the time at which such person is to attend before the court.
6. (3) Whenever security is taken under this section the officer to whom the warrant is directed shall forward the bond to the court.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (1) A warrant of arrest may be directed to one or more police officers or chiefs named in it or generally to all police officers or chiefs.
2. (2) Any court issuing such a warrant may, if its immediate execution is necessary and no police officer or chief is immediately available, direct it to any other person, and that person shall execute the warrant.
3. (3) When a warrant is directed to more officers or persons than one, it may be executed by all or by any one or more of them.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (1) A chief magistrate may direct a warrant to any landholder, farmer or manager of land within the local limits of the magistrate's jurisdiction for the arrest of any escaped convict, proclaimed offender or person who has been accused of a cognisable offence and has eluded pursuit.
2. (2) That landholder, farmer or manager shall acknowledge in writing the receipt of the warrant and shall execute it if the person for whose arrest it was issued is in or enters on his or her land or farm or the land under his or her charge.
3. (3) When the person against whom the warrant is issued is arrested, he or she shall be handed over with the warrant to the nearest police officer, who shall cause him or her to be taken before a magistrate having jurisdiction, unless security is taken under section 57.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. A warrant directed to a police officer may also be executed by any other police officer whose name is endorsed upon the warrant by the officer to whom it is directed or endorsed, and similarly, a warrant directed to a chief may be executed by any other chief whose name is endorsed on the warrant by the chief to whom it was directed or endorsed

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. The police officer or other person executing a warrant of arrest shall notify the substance of the warrant to the person to be arrested, and, if so required, shall show him or her the warrant and shall, subject to section 57, without unnecessary delay bring the person arrested before the court before which he or she is required by law to produce that person.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. A warrant of arrest may be executed at any place in Uganda

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (1) When a warrant of arrest is executed outside the local limits of the jurisdiction of the court by which it was issued, the person arrested shall, unless the court which issued the warrant is within twenty miles of the place of arrest, or is nearer than the magistrate within the local limits of whose jurisdiction the arrest was made, or unless security is taken under section 57, be taken before the magistrate within the local limits of whose jurisdiction the arrest was made.
2. (2) That magistrate shall, if the person arrested appears to be the person intended by the court which issued the warrant, direct his or her removal in custody to that court; except that if the person has been arrested for an offence, other than murder, treason or rape, and he or she is ready and willing to give bail to the satisfaction of the magistrate, or if a direction has been endorsed under section 57 on the warrant and the person is ready and willing to give the security required by that direction, the magistrate shall take such bail or security, as the case may be, and shall forward the bond to the court which issued the warrant.
3. (3) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to prevent a police officer from taking security under section 57.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. Any irregularity or defect in the substance or form of a warrant, and any variance between it and the written complaint or information, or between either and the evidence produced on the part of the prosecution at any inquiry or trial, shall not affect the validity of any proceedings at or subsequent to the hearing of the case; but if any such variance appears to the court to be such that the accused has been deceived or misled by the variance, the court may, at the request of the accused, adjourn the hearing of the case to some future date and in the meantime remand the accused or admit him or her to bail

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. Where any person for whose appearance or arrest, a magistrate is empowered to issue a summons or warrant is present in court, the magistrate may require that person to execute a bond, with or without sureties, for his or her appearance in the court

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. When any person who is bound by any bond taken under this Act to appear before a court does not so appear, the magistrate presiding in that court may issue a warrant directing that that person be arrested and produced before him or her

Citing judgments are indexed, but no express interpretive proposition has yet passed the passage-verification threshold. Open Judicial treatment for the citing passages.

1. (1) Where any person for whose appearance or arrest a magistrate is empowered to issue a summons or warrant is confined in any prison, the magistrate may issue an order to the officer in charge of that prison requiring him or her to bring that prisoner in proper custody, at a time to be named in the order, before the court.
2. (2) Where an order is directed to an officer in charge of a prison beyond the local limits of the jurisdiction of the court issuing the order, the court shall send the order for endorsement to a magistrate within the local limits of whose jurisdiction the order is to be executed.
3. (3) The endorsement referred to in subsection (2), shall be sufficient authority to the officer in charge of the prison to whom the order is directed to execute the order.
4. (4) The officer so in charge, on receipt of such order, shall act in accordance with it, and shall provide for the safe custody of the prisoner during his or her absence from the prison for the purpose of the order.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. The provisions contained in this Part of this Act relating to a summons and warrant, and their issue, service and execution, shall, so far as may be, apply to every summons and every warrant of arrest issued under this Act or by a justice of the peace, and, except insofar as those provisions may be inconsistent with any other law, the powers of a magistrate or court in relation to the issuing or endorsing of a summons or warrant may be exercised by a justice of the peace

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. When a police officer has reason to believe that material evidence can be obtained in connection with an offence for which an arrest has been made or authorised, any police officer may search the dwelling or place of business of the person so arrested or of the person for whom the warrant of arrest has been issued and may take possession of anything which might reasonably be used as evidence in any criminal proceedings

1. Where it is proved on oath to a magistrate's court that in fact or according to reasonable suspicion anything upon, by or in respect of which an offence has been committed or anything which is necessary to the conduct of an investigation into any offence is in any building, vessel, carriage, box, receptacle or place, the court may by a search warrant authorise the person to whom the warrant is directed to search the building, vessel, carriage, box, receptacle or place, which shall be named or described in the warrant, for any such thing and, if anything searched for is found, to seize it and carry it before the court issuing the warrant or some other court to be dealt with according to law

1. Every search warrant may be issued and executed on a Sunday, and shall be executed between the hours of sunrise and sunset; but the court may, by the warrant, in its discretion, authorise the police officer or other person to whom it is addressed to execute it at any hour

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (1) Whenever any building or other place liable to search is closed, any person residing in or being in charge of that building or place shall, on demand of the police officer or other person executing the search warrant, and on production of the warrant, allow him or her free ingress to it and egress from it and afford all reasonable facilities for a search in it.
2. (2) If ingress into or egress from that building or other place cannot be so obtained, the police officer or other person executing the search warrant may proceed in the manner prescribed by section 3 or 4 of the Criminal Procedure Code Act.
3. (3) Where any person in or about such building or place is reasonably suspected of concealing about his or her person any article for which search should be made, that person may be searched. If that person is a woman, the provisions of section 8 of the Criminal Procedure Code Act shall be observed.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (1) When any such thing is seized and brought before a court, it may be detained until the conclusion of the case or the investigation, reasonable care being taken for its preservation.
2. (2) If any appeal is made, or if any person is committed for trial, the court may order it to be further detained for the purpose of the appeal or the trial.
3. (3) If no appeal is made, or if no person is committed for trial, the court shall direct such thing to be restored to the person from whom it was taken, unless the court sees fit or is authorised or required by law to dispose of it otherwise.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. Sections 56(1) and (3), 58, 60 and 62 shall, so far as may be, apply to all search warrants issued under section 70.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (1) A magistrate's court before which a person appears or is brought charged with any offence, other than the offences specified in subsection (2), may, at any stage in the proceedings, release the person on bail, on taking from him or her a recognisance consisting of a bond with or without sureties, for such an amount as is reasonable in the circumstances of the case to appear before the court, on such a date and at such a time as is named in the bond.
2. (2) The offences excluded from the grant of bail under subsection (1) are as follows-
3. (a) an offence triable only by the High Court;
4. (b) the offence of terrorism and any other offence punishable by more than ten years imprisonment under the Anti-Terrorism Act;
5. (c) an offence under the Penal Code Act relating to cattle rustling;
6. (d) offences under the Firearms Act punishable by more than ten years imprisonment;
7. (e) rape contrary to section 110 of the Penal Code Act and aggravated defilement under section 119 of that Act;
8. (f) embezzlement, contrary to section 18 of the Anti-Corruption Act;

11 further items remain in the statutory text above.

1. (b) in respect of any other offence, for a continuous period exceeding sixty days, the magistrate before whom the accused person first appears after the expiration of the relevant period shall release him or her on bail on his or her own recognisance, notwithstanding that he or she is accused of an offence referred to in section 75(1), unless-
2. (i) he or she has, prior to the expiration of that period, been committed to the High Court for trial; or
3. (ii) the magistrate is satisfied that it is expedient for the protection of the public that he or she should not be released from custody.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (1) Where any person appears before a magistrate's court charged with an offence for which bail may be granted, the court shall inform the person of his or her right to apply for bail.
2. (2) When an application for bail is made, the court shall have regard to the following matters in deciding whether bail should be granted or refused-
3. (a) the nature of the accusation;
4. (b) the gravity of the offence charged and the severity of the punishment which conviction might entail;
5. (c) the antecedents of the applicant so far as they are known;
6. (d) whether the applicant has a fixed abode within the area of the court's jurisdiction; and
7. (e) whether the applicant is likely to interfere with any of the witnesses for the prosecution or any of the evidence to be tendered in support of the charge.
8. (3) Where bail is not granted under section 75, the court shall-

2 further items remain in the statutory text above.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (b) to deposit a sum of money to such amount as the court or officer may fix, in lieu of executing such a bond.

Citing judgments are indexed, but no express interpretive proposition has yet passed the passage-verification threshold. Open Judicial treatment for the citing passages.

1. If, through mistake, fraud or otherwise, insufficient sureties have been accepted, or if they afterwards become insufficient, the court may issue a warrant of arrest directing that the person released on bail be brought before it, and may order him or her to find sufficient sureties, and on his or her failing so to do may commit him or her to prison

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (1) All or any of the sureties for the appearance and attendance of a person released on bail may at any time apply to a magistrate to discharge the bond either wholly or so far as it relates to the applicant or applicants.
2. (2) On that application being made, the magistrate shall issue a warrant of arrest directing that the person released be brought before him or her.
3. (3) On the appearance of that person pursuant to the warrant, or on his or her voluntary surrender, the magistrate shall direct the bond to be discharged either wholly or so far as it relates to the applicant or applicants, and shall call upon that person to find other sufficient sureties, and if he or she fails to do so may commit him or her to prison.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. Where a surety to a bond dies before the bond is forfeited, his or her estate shall be discharged from all liability in respect of the bond, but the party who gave the bond may be required to find a new surety

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. If it is made to appear to any magistrate's court, by information on oath, that any person bound by recognisance is about to leave Uganda, the court may cause that person to be arrested and may commit him or her to prison until the trial or inquiry, unless the court shall see fit to admit him or her to bail upon further recognisance

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (1) Whenever it is proved to the satisfaction of a magistrate's court by which a recognisance under this Act has been taken, or when the recognisance is for appearance before a court, to the satisfaction of that court, that such recognisance has been forfeited, the court shall record the grounds of the proof, and may call upon any person bound by the recognisance to pay the penalty for forfeiture, or to show cause why the penalty should not be paid.
2. (2) If sufficient cause is not shown and the penalty is not paid, the court may proceed to recover the penalty by issuing a warrant for the attachment and sale of the movable property belonging to such person, or his or her estate if the person is dead.
3. (3) That warrant may be executed within the local limits of the jurisdiction of the court which issued it; and it shall authorise the attachment and sale of the movable property belonging to such person without those limits, when endorsed by any magistrate within the local limits of whose jurisdiction that property is found.
4. (4) If such penalty is not paid and cannot be recovered by the attachment and sale, the person so bound shall be liable, by order of the court which issued the warrant, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months.
5. (5) The court may, at its discretion, remit any portion of the penalty mentioned and enforce payment in part only.
6. (6) When any person who has furnished security is convicted of an offence the commission of which constitutes a breach of the conditions of his or her recognisance, a certified copy of the judgment of the court by which he or she was convicted of that offence may be used as evidence in proceedings under this section against his or her surety or sureties, and, if that certified copy is so used, the court shall presume that the offence was committed by him or her unless the contrary is proved.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. All orders passed under the provisions of section 83 by any magistrate shall be appealable to and may be revised by the High Court

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. Every charge shall contain, and shall be sufficient if it contains, a statement of the specific offence or offences with which the accused person is charged, together with such particulars as may be necessary for giving reasonable information as to the nature of the offence charged

1. (1) Any offences, whether felonies or misdemeanours, may be charged together in the same charge if the offences charged are founded on the same facts or form or are a part of a series of offences of the same or a similar character.
2. (2) Where more than one offence is charged in a charge, a description of each offence so charged shall be set out in a separate paragraph of the charge called a count.
3. (3) Where, before trial, or at any stage of a trial, the court is of the opinion that a person accused may be embarrassed in his or her defence by reason of being charged with more than one offence in the same charge, or that for any other reason it is desirable to direct that the person should be tried separately for any one or more offences charged in a charge, the court may order a separate trial of any count or counts of the charge.

Citing judgments are indexed, but no express interpretive proposition has yet passed the passage-verification threshold. Open Judicial treatment for the citing passages.

1. (b) persons accused of an offence and persons accused of abetment or of an attempt to commit that offence;
2. (c) persons accused of more offences than one of the same kind, punishable with the same punishment under the same section of the Penal Code Act or of any other written law, committed by them jointly within a period of twelve months;
3. (d) persons accused of different offences committed in the course of the same transaction;
4. (e) persons accused of any offence under Chapters XXIV to XXXVII, inclusive, of the Penal Code Act and persons accused of receiving or retaining property, possession of which is alleged to have been transferred by any such offence committed by the first-named persons, or of abetment of or attempting to commit either of the last-named offences;
5. (f) persons accused of any offence relating to counterfeit coin under Chapter XXXIV of the Penal Code Act, and persons accused of any other offence under that Chapter relating to the same coin, or of abetment of or attempting to commit any such offence.

Citing judgments are indexed, but no express interpretive proposition has yet passed the passage-verification threshold. Open Judicial treatment for the citing passages.

1. (b) the statement of offence shall describe the offence shortly in ordinary language, avoiding as far as possible the use of technical terms, and without necessarily stating all the essential elements of the offence, and if the offence charged is one created by enactment shall contain a reference to the section of the enactment creating the offence;
2. (c) after the statement of the offence, particulars of the offence shall be set out in ordinary language in which the use of technical terms shall not be necessary;
3. (d) where any rule of law or any written law limits the particulars of an offence which are required to be given in a charge, nothing in paragraph (c) shall require any more particulars to be given than those so required;
4. (e) where a charge contains more than one count, the counts shall be numbered consecutively;
5. (f) where an enactment constituting an offence states the offence to be the doing or the omission to do any one of any different acts in the alternative, or the doing or the omission to do any act in any one of any different capacities, or with any one of different intentions, or states any part of the offence in the alternative, acts, omissions, capacities or intentions, or other matters stated in the alternative in the enactment, may be stated in the alternative in the count charging the offence;
6. (g) it shall not be necessary, in any count charging an offence constituted by an enactment, to negative any exception or exemption from or qualification to the operation of the enactment creating the offence;
7. (h) the description of property in a charge shall be in ordinary language, and such as to indicate with reasonable clearness the property referred to, and, if the property is so described, it shall not be necessary, except when required for the purpose of describing an offence depending on any special ownership of property or special value of property, to name the person to whom the property belongs or the value of the property;
8. (i) where property is vested in more than one person, and the owners of the property are referred to in a charge, it shall be sufficient to describe the property as owned by one of those persons by name with the others, and if the persons owning the property are a body of persons with a collective name, such as "joint stock company" or "inhabitants", "trustees", "commissioners" or "club" or other such name, it shall be sufficient to use the collective name without naming any individual;

9 further items remain in the statutory text above.