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(1)Whenever the Minister is satisfied that any boycott is being conducted or is threatened or is likely to be conducted in Uganda with the intention or effect of—
(a)bringing into hatred or contempt, exciting disaffection against or undermining the lawful authority of the Government or the administration of a district; or of persuading any such body to alter any written law, to appoint any commission or committee or to take any action which it is not by law required to take;
(b)bringing the economic life of Uganda into jeopardy; or
(c)raising discontent or disaffection among the inhabitants, or engendering feelings of ill will or hostility between different classes or different races of the population of Uganda,
and he or she is satisfied that the boycott is resulting, or will be likely to result, in acts leading to violence or intimidation or the destruction of or damage to property, the Minister may, by statutory order, designate that boycott for the purposes of this section and may, by the same or any subsequent order, specify in relation to a designated boycott any action which he or she is satisfied is likely to further that boycott, including, but without prejudice to the generality of that power, any action falling within any of the following classes of action—
(d)abstaining from buying goods from or selling goods to any person or class of person;
(e)abstaining from buying or selling any goods or class of goods;
(f)abstaining from entering or approaching or dealing at any premises at which any person or class of person carries on trade or business;
(g)abstaining from dealing with any person or class of person in the course of his or her trade or business;
(h)abstaining from using or providing any service or class of service;
(i)abstaining from working for or employing any person or class of person; or
(j)abstaining from doing any other act which may lawfully be done.
(2)Any person who with intent to further any designated boycott—
(a)by word of mouth publicly; or
(b)by making a publication as defined in subsection (7), advises,
induces or persuades or attempts to persuade any person or class of person to take any action which has been specified in relation to that boycott commits an offence and is liable, on conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months.
(3)For the purposes of this section, in determining whether any words were spoken or any publication was made with intent to further a designated boycott, every person shall, unless the contrary is proved, be deemed to intend the consequences which would naturally follow from his or her conduct at the time and in the circumstances in which he or she so conducted himself or herself.
(4)Nothing in this section shall be construed so as to make unlawful any action lawfully taken by a party to a labour dispute as defined in the Labour Unions Act in contemplation or in furtherance of that dispute.
(5)Where any person is charged before any court with an offence under this section, no further proceedings in respect of the offence shall be taken against him or her without the consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions, except such as the court may think necessary by remand, whether in custody or on bail, or otherwise to secure the due appearance of the person so charged, however, that if that person is remanded in custody, he or she shall, after the expiration of a period of fourteen days from the date on which he or she was remanded, be entitled to be discharged from custody on entering into a recognisance without sureties unless within that period the Director of Public Prosecutions has consented to such further proceedings.
(6)Any order made under this section may at any time be amended, varied, suspended or revoked by a further order so made.
(7)For the purpose of this section, “publication” has the meaning given to it by section 32, and a person shall be deemed to make a publication if he or she prints, publishes, sells, offers for sale, distributes or reproduces it.
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