Section 10: Powers of Commission

Subject to any directions that may be given in writing by the Attorney General, the Commission shall, in the preparation of a Revised Edition have the following powers (a) to omit- (i) all Acts, statutory instruments, legal notices or any part of those documents which have been expressly repealed or which have had full effect; (ii) all repealing Acts, statutory instruments, legal notices or any part of those documents and all tables and lists of repealed enactments, whether contained in Schedules or otherwise; (iii) all amending Acts, statutory instruments, legal notices or any part of those documents where such amendments have been incorporated in the Act, statutory instrument or legal notice to which they relate; (iv) all preambles to Acts, statutory instruments, legal notices or any part of them, where the omission can, in the opinion of the Commission, conveniently be made; (v) all words of enactment in any Act, statutory instrument or legal notice; (vi) all provisions appointing the date when an Act, statutory instrument, legal notice or any part of those documents is to come into force, where the omission can, in the opinion of the Commission, conveniently be made; (vii) all statutory instruments made under the authority of Acts which have been repealed and not re-enacted; (viii) all Appropriation Acts and Supplementary Appropriation Acts; (ix) all statutory instruments granting remission of tax, customs tariff duties, excise duties and similar measures to the extent the omission is approved by the Attorney General by statutory instrument; (x) all statutory instruments which the Attorney General has, by statutory instrument, specified as inconsistent with any Act repealing and re-enacting the Act under which the statutory instrument was made; (xi) all expressions which have become obsolete as a result of constitutional changes or changes specified in Acts, statutory instruments, legal notices and substitute the expressions authorised by those changes; (b) to renumber sections, paragraphs and other subdivisions in an amended Act, statutory instrument or legal notice; (c) to re-designate legal notices as statutory instruments; (d) to arrange the Acts, statutory instruments and legal notices in any sequence and groups that may be convenient, irrespective of the dates of enactment; (e) to correct cross references; (f) to correct grammatical and typographical errors, and for that purpose, to make additions, omissions or alterations; (g) to make capitalisation consistent; (h) to make such formal alterations as to names, localities, offices and otherwise as may be necessary to bring an Act, statutory instrument or legal notice into conformity with the circumstances in Uganda; (i) to make reviser's notes and footnotes where necessary; (j) to add such indexes, tables and other editorial features as the Commission considers appropriate; (k) to provide editorial notes by way of amplification; and (l) to do all things relating to form and method which, in the opinion of the Commission, are necessary or useful for perfecting the Revised Edition.