any police officer commits an offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years. 30. Inducing soldiers or policemen to desert. Any person who, by any means, directly or indirectly— (a) procures or persuades or attempts to procure or persuade to desert; (b) aids, abets or is accessory to the desertion of; or (c) having reason to believe he or she is a deserter, harbours or aids in concealing, any noncommissioned officer or member of the armed forces of Uganda or any police officer commits an offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years. 31. Aiding prisoners of war to escape. (1) Any person who knowingly and advisedly aids an alien enemy of the Republic of Uganda, being a prisoner of war in Uganda, whether the prisoner is confined in a prison or elsewhere or is suffered to be at large on parole, to escape from that prison or place of confinement or, if he or she is at large on parole, to escape from Uganda, commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for life. (2) Any person who negligently and unlawfully permits the escape of any person as described in subsection (1) commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years. 32. Definition of overt act. For the purposes of any offence defined in this Chapter, when the manifestation by an overt act of an intention to effect any purpose is an element of the offence, every act in furtherance of the commission of the offence defined or every act of conspiring with any person to effect that purpose and every act done in furtherance of the purpose by any of the persons conspiring shall be deemed to be an overt act manifesting the intention. 33. Interpretation of import, publication, etc. For the purposes of sections 34, 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 42, 43 and 44—