{UAH} STELLA NYANZI:CHAPTER 293 THE PUBLIC COLLECTIONS ACT.
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CHAPTER 293
THE PUBLIC COLLECTIONS ACT.
Commencement : 1 July, 1966.
An Act relating to public collections of money or in kind and other purposes connected therewith.
1. Interpretation.
(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—
1. "collector" means a person duly authorised under section 7 to assist in making a public collection;
2. "functions" includes powers and duties;
3. " Minister" means the Minister to whom functions under this Act are assigned;
4. " promoter" means a person duly registered under section 5 as the promoter of a public collection;
5. "registration authority" means the registration authority appointed under section 4;
6. "stated objects" means the objects to which the proceeds of a collection under this Act are to be applied.
(2) For the purposes of sections 2 and 7, "appeal" means a request or
invitation however conveyed, whether by actions, in words, pictorially or in
writing, and whether made in public, through the press, radio or television,
in conversation, by house to house visiting or through the post.
2. Public appeals for donations.
1. Subject to this Act, it shall be unlawful for any person to make any appeal to the public or any part or class of the public for donations in money or in kind for any object, except where registration of the public collection has been effected in accordance with this Act.
The Public Collections Act was enacted in 1966 to stop Baganda privately raising money to support the exiled Kabaka Mutesa II.So as of now it's inconsequential. Dr Stella Nyanzi shld be allowed to solicit funds for buying sanitary pads to give school girls who can't afford to buy them(Pads).I don't see the regulations by the minister to operationalise the Act. Even the registration authority is absent.
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-- THE PUBLIC COLLECTIONS ACT.
Commencement : 1 July, 1966.
An Act relating to public collections of money or in kind and other purposes connected therewith.
1. Interpretation.
(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—
1. "collector" means a person duly authorised under section 7 to assist in making a public collection;
2. "functions" includes powers and duties;
3. " Minister" means the Minister to whom functions under this Act are assigned;
4. " promoter" means a person duly registered under section 5 as the promoter of a public collection;
5. "registration authority" means the registration authority appointed under section 4;
6. "stated objects" means the objects to which the proceeds of a collection under this Act are to be applied.
(2) For the purposes of sections 2 and 7, "appeal" means a request or
invitation however conveyed, whether by actions, in words, pictorially or in
writing, and whether made in public, through the press, radio or television,
in conversation, by house to house visiting or through the post.
2. Public appeals for donations.
1. Subject to this Act, it shall be unlawful for any person to make any appeal to the public or any part or class of the public for donations in money or in kind for any object, except where registration of the public collection has been effected in accordance with this Act.
The Public Collections Act was enacted in 1966 to stop Baganda privately raising money to support the exiled Kabaka Mutesa II.So as of now it's inconsequential. Dr Stella Nyanzi shld be allowed to solicit funds for buying sanitary pads to give school girls who can't afford to buy them(Pads).I don't see the regulations by the minister to operationalise the Act. Even the registration authority is absent.
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