LAW REVISION (FINES AND OTHER FINANCIAL AMOUNTS IN CRIMINAL MATTERS) ACT.
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
Section
3. Ratio of fines to imprisonment.
4. Fines in legislation without accompanying terms of imprisonment.
5. Compensation and other financial amounts in existing legislation.
6. Application of ratio of fines and imprisonment to specific enactments.
7. Power of Minister to make statutory instruments.
8. Attorney General to cause Penal Code to be reprinted.
LAW REVISION (FINES AND OTHER FINANCIAL AMOUNTS IN CRIMINAL MATTERS) ACT.
An Act to provide for the revision of fines and other financial amounts prescribed in written laws relating to criminal matters in order to cater for the fall in the value of the Uganda currency over the years owing to inflation and other causes; to provide for a standardised ratio between fines and related terms of imprisonment; to convert fines and other financial amounts in written laws in criminal matters into currency points at a prescribed value; to empower the Minister to vary the value of a currency point; and to provide for other matters related to the foregoing.
Commencement: 29 August, 2008.
This Act applies to any written law relating to criminal matters which makes provision for fines and other financial amounts.
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—
"currency point" has the value prescribed in the Schedule to this Act;
"Minister" means Minister responsible for justice;
"written laws" includes a provision of a written law.
3. Ratio of fines to imprisonment.
(1) In any written law to which this Act applies and in force immediately before the commencement of this Act, where a fine is prescribed in relation to a term of imprisonment, the ratio of the fine to imprisonment shall be two currency points to each month of imprisonment.
(2) Subject to this Act, any penalties prescribed in any written law referred to i
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