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Section 35: Delivery of prohibited publications - Penal Code Uganda

35.Delivery of prohibited publications

(1)Any person—

(a)to whom any publication, the importation of which has been prohibited under section 33, or any extract from such publication, is sent without his or her knowledge or privity, or in response to a request made before the prohibition of the importation of such publication came into effect; or

(b)who has any such publication or extract from such publication in his or her possession at the time when the prohibition of its importation comes into effect,

shall forthwith, if or as soon as the nature of its contents has become known to him or her, or in the case of a publication or extract from such publication coming into the possession of such person before the order prohibiting its importation has been made, forthwith upon the coming into effect of an order prohibiting the importation of the publication, deliver such publication or extract from it to the nearest administrative officer or to the officer in charge of the nearest police station.

(2)Any person who contravenes any provision of subsection (1) commits an offence and is liable, on conviction, to a fine not exceeding seventy-two currency points or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years, or both.

(3)Any publication or extract from it which is the subject matter of a conviction under subsection (2) shall be forfeited to the Government.

(4)Any person who complies with subsection (1), or who is convicted of an offence under that subsection, shall not be liable to be convicted for having imported or having in his or her possession the same publication or extract from it.

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You must immediately deliver any publication whose importation has been banned under Section 33 if you receive it without knowledge, after a prior req...

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