HIDE AND SKIN TRADE ACT.

(i) "licensing officer" means the Minister or such other person or authority as may be authorised by the Minister, by statutory order, to issue licences under this Act;

(j) "preparation" includes the processes of flaying, cleansing, fleshing, salting or drying, or any other prescribed process, and "prepared" and "prepare" shall be construed accordingly;

(k) "properly dried" means, in relation to a ground or suspension dried hide or skin, one which when protected from the rain and freely suspended under an impervious roof for 24 hours will not lose more than three percent of its weight, at the time of suspension, by evaporation of water;

(l) "region" means any area of Uganda declared to be a region under section 2;

(m) "skin" means a properly dried skin of a calf, goat or sheep;

(n) "suspension dried" in relation to a hide or skin means dried by a prescribed method of suspension drying;

(0) "veterinary officer" means any member of the department of veterinary services and animal industry or any other person authorised by the commissioner to act as a veterinary officer for the purposes of this Act.

PART II
BUYING AND TREATING HIDES AND SKINS.

2. Regions.

The commissioner may, by statutory instrument, declare any part of Uganda to be a hides region or a skins region, or a hides and skins region and assign to any such region the designation by which it shall be known.

3. Restrictions on purchase of hides and skins.

(1) No person shall in any region whether on his or her own account or on behalf of any other person purchase for resale or tanning in Uganda any hide or skin—

(a) unless he or she is in possession of a valid buyers licence in the prescribed form issued to him or her by a licensing officer;

(b) except within the region in respect of which the licence is issued and at premises licensed under this Act or at a hide and skin market approved as such by the commissioner or any veterinary officer;

(2) No person shall in any region whether on his or her own account or on behalf of any other person engage in the trade of buying, cleaning or preparing any green hides or green skins for the purpose of resale—

(a) unless he or she is in possession of a buyers licence issued to him or her for that purpose by the licensing officer;

(b) except in accordance with any conditions prescribed under the provisions of this Act.

(3) The commissioner may in writing, subject to such conditions as he or she shall think fit, exempt any person or class of persons from compliance with any of the provisions of this section.

4. Restrictions on internal purchases by noncitizens.

(1) Subject to subsection (3), it shall not be lawful for any person—

(a) who is not a citizen of Uganda to hold a buyers licence for the purposes of undertaking any of the business specified in section 3;

(b) who is a citizen of Uganda to trade, under a buyers licence issued to that citizen, on behalf of any person who is not a citizen of Uganda; or

(c) who is not a citizen of Uganda to engage or allow a person who is a citizen of Uganda to trade directly or indirectly on his or her behalf under a buyers licence issued to that citizen.

(2) For the purposes of this section, a citizen of Uganda includes—

(a) a cooperative society registered under the Cooperative Societies Act, all of whose members are citizens of Uganda; and

(b) a company registered under the Companies Act or, as the case may be, a firm which is wholly owned by persons who are citizens of Uganda.

(3) Notwithsta

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