Section 27: Responses to natural disasters to be

funded from the Contingencies Fund (1) The money in the Contingencies Fund which is reserved for financing responses to natural disasters may be used to evacuate a Ugandan citizen who is affected by a natural disaster that occurs outside Uganda, where the conditions of subsection (3) are met. (2) A financial donation or a donation in kind, made to a vote towards responding to a disaster, shall be declared by the Minister within 30 days of receipt and the financial donation or the donation in kind shall form part of the report made under section 18 (1). (3) In this Part "natural disaster" means an event that causes severe human suffering or material, economic or environmental damage and which results in or is likely to result in the loss of essential services required to meet basic human needs and which- (a) cannot be responded to with the resources available from the annual budget or other sources of funds; and (b) creates a compelling need for funding that is in the public interest.