1. Interpretation
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires (a) "board of studies" means the board of studies established under section 10 ;
"chairperson" means the chairperson of the council appointed under section 7 ;
"council" means the governing body of the institute which is established under section 7 ;
"director" means the director appointed under section 16 ; and "deputy director" means the person appointed under section 17 ;
"disabilities" means lack or restriction of ability, caused by impairment, to perform any activity in a manner or within the range considered normal for a human being, within the cultural context;
"distance education" means personalised learning through various appropriate communications media;
"educational assessment and resource services" means a special education programme which is part of the Uganda school structure but includes community participation of parents, administrators or other professionals;
"institute" means the Uganda National Institute of Special Education established under section 2 ;
"outreach programmes or services" means extramural programmes or services;
"secretary" means the administrative secretary of the institute provided under section 18 ;
"special education" means educational approaches and programmes specially designed to meet the needs of persons having special learning needs;
"special learning needs" means needs of which one does not always know the cause, which may include significant difficulties in making use of listening, speaking, reading, writing or walking organs coupled with lack of reasoning capability which might have been caused by understimulation or social or emotional irregularities in the child's upbringing.
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This section supplies the definitions or statutory meaning governing “Interpretation”.
“In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires (a) "board of studies" means the board of studies established under section 10;”
Use this definition when interpreting other provisions that employ the language addressed by “Interpretation”.
Operative requirements extracted from the consolidated text.
- (b) "chairperson" means the chairperson of the council appointed under section 7;
- (c) "council" means the governing body of the institute which is established under section 7;
- (d) "director" means the director appointed under section 16; and "deputy director" means the person appointed under section 17;
- (e) "disabilities" means lack or restriction of ability, caused by impairment, to perform any activity in a manner or within the range considered normal for a human being, within the cultural context;
- (f) "distance education" means personalised learning through various appropriate communications media;
- (g) "educational assessment and resource services" means a special education programme which is part of the Uganda school structure but includes community participation of parents, administrators or other professionals;
- (h) "institute" means the Uganda National Institute of Special Education established under section 2;
- (i) "outreach programmes or services" means extramural programmes or services;
3 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 amendment note or instrument-level amendment history appears in this consolidation.