Section 297: Receiving stolen goods from outside Uganda

Any person who, without lawful excuse, knowing or having reason to believe property to have been stolen or obtained in any way under such circumstances that if the act had been committed in Uganda the person committing it would have been guilty of a felony or misdemeanour, receives or has in his or her possession any property so stolen or obtained outside Uganda, commits an offence of the like degree, whether felony or misdemeanour, and is liable, on conviction, to imprisonment for a term of seven years.