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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