“Code” means this Penal Code;

“court” means a court of competent jurisdiction;

“currency point” has the value assigned to it in the Schedule to this Act;

“dangerous harm” means harm endangering life;

“dwelling house” includes any building or structure or part of a building or structure which is for the time being kept by the owner or occupier for his or her residence or that of his or her family or servants or any of them, and it is immaterial that it is from time to time uninhabited; a building or structure adjacent to or occupied with a dwelling house is deemed to be part of the dwelling house if there is a communication between such building or structure and the dwelling house, either immediate or by means of a covered and enclosed passage leading from the one to the other, but not otherwise;

“felony” means an offence which is declared by law to be a felony or, if not declared to be a misdemeanour, is punishable, without proof of previous conviction, with death or with imprisonment for three years or more;

“grievous harm” means any harm which amounts to a maim or dangerous harm, or seriously or permanently injures health or which is likely so to injure health, or which extends to permanent disfigurement, or to any permanent or serious injury to any external or internal organ, membrane or sense;

“harm” means any bodily hurt, disease or disorder whether permanent or temporary;

“husband” means husband of a monogamous marriage;

“judicial proceeding” includes any proceeding had or taken in or before any court, tribunal, commission of inquiry or person, in which evidence may be taken on oath;

“knowingly”, used in connection with any term denoting uttering or using, implies knowledge of the character of the thing uttered or used;

“local authority” means a local authority established under any written law;

“maim” means the destruction or permanent disabling of any external or internal organ, membrane or sense;

“Minister” means Attorney General;

“misdemeanour” means any offence which is not a felony;

“money” includes bank notes, bank drafts, cheques and any other orders, warrants or requests for the payment of money;

“monogamous marriage” means a marriage which is by law necessarily monogamous and binding during the lifetime of both parties unless dissolved by a valid judgment of the court;

"night" or "nighttime" means the interval between half-past six o'clock in the evening and half-past six o'clock in the morning;

“oath” includes affirmation or declaration;

“offence” is an act, attempt or omission punishable by law;

“person” and “owner” and other like terms when used with reference to property include corporations of all kinds and any other association of persons capable of owning property, and also when so used include the Government;

"person employed in the public service" means any person holding any of the following offices or performing the duty of the office, whether as a deputy or otherwise—

(a)any civil office the power of appointing a person to which or of removing from which is vested in any person or in any public commission or board;

(b)any office to which a person is appointed or nominated by any written law;

(c)any civil office, the power of appointing to. which or removing from which is vested in any person or persons holding, an office of any kind included in paragraph (a) or (b) of this definition; or

(d)any office of arbitrator or umpire in any proceeding or matter submitted to arbitration by order or with the sanction, of any court, or in. pursuance of any written law,

(e)a justice of the peace;

(f)a member of a commission of inquiry appointed under or in pursuance of any written law;

(g)any person employed to execute any process of a court;

(h)all persons belonging to the armed forces of Uganda;

(i)all persons in the employment of the Government or the administration of a district;

(j)a person acting as a minister of religion of any denomination insofar as he or she performs functions in respect of the notification of intending marriage or in respect of the solemnisation of marriage or in respect of the making or keeping of any register or certificate of marriage, birth, baptism, death or burial, but not in any other respect;

(k)a person in the employment of an urban authority;

“property” includes everything animate or inanimate capable of being the subject of ownership;

that they are so done in any public place as to be seen by any person whether such person is or is not in a public place; or

that they are so done in any place not being a public place as to be likely to be seen by any person in a public place;