commits a felony and is liable to imprisonment for life.
46.
Other unlawful oaths.
Any person who—
(a) administers or is present at and consents to the administering of,
any oath or engagement in the nature of an oath, purporting to
bind the person who takes it to act in any of the following
ways—
(i) to engage in any mutinous or seditious enterprise;
(ii) to commit any offence not punishable with death;
(iii) to disturb the public peace;
(iv) to be of any association, society or confederacy, formed for
the purpose of doing any such act as aforesaid;
(v) to obey the orders or commands of any committee or body
of men not lawfully constituted, or of any leader or
commander or other person not having authority by law for
that purpose;
(vi) not to inform or give evidence against any associate,
confederate or other person;
(vii) not to reveal or discover any unlawful association, society
or confederacy, or any illegal act done or to be done, or any
illegal oath or engagement that may have been
administered or tendered to or taken by himself or herself
or any other person, or the import of any such oath or
engagement; or
(b) takes any such oath or engagement, not being compelled to do so,
commits a felony and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.
47.
Limitations on compulsion as a defence to unlawful oath or
engagement.
A person who takes any such oath or engagement as is mentioned in section
45 or 46 cannot set up as a defence that he or she was compelled to do so,
unless within fourteen days after taking it, or, if he or she is prevented by
actual force or sickness, within fourteen days after the termination of such
prevention, he or she declares by information on oath before a magistrate, or,
if he or she is on actual service in the armed forces of Uganda, or in a police
force, either by such information or by information to his or her commanding
officer, the whole of what he or she knows concerning the matter, including
the person or persons by whom and in whose presence, and the place where,
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