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Section 193: Police supervision for certain offenders

193.Police supervision

(1)Where any person to whom this section applies is sentenced to imprisonment, the court shall, at the time of passing the sentence, order that he or she shall be subject to police supervision for a period not exceeding five years from the date of the expiration of that sentence.

(2)Every person subject to police supervision shall, on his or her discharge from prison, be furnished by the prescribed officer with an identity card in the prescribed form, and while at large in Uganda shall—

(a)report himself or herself personally at such intervals of time, at such place and to such person as shall be endorsed on his or her card; and

(b)notify the place of his or her residence and any change of residence in such manner and to such person as may be prescribed by rules under this section.

(3)If any person, subject to police supervision who is at large in Uganda, refuses or neglects to comply with any requirement prescribed by this section or by any rules made under it, that person shall, unless he or she proves to the satisfaction of the court before which he or she is tried that he or she did his or her best to act in conformity with the law, commits an offence and is liable, on conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years.

(4)The Minister may, by statutory instrument, make rules for carrying out the provisions of this section.

(5)This section applies to—

(a)any person convicted of robbery contrary to section 274 of the Penal Code Act; and

(b)any person convicted of an offence declared by the Minister, by statutory instrument, to be an offence to which this section shall apply.

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If you are convicted of robbery or an offence declared by the Minister to fall under this section, and you are sent to prison, the court must also ord...

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