Section 25: Bond contents, and consequences of breach

(1)The bond to be executed by any such person shall bind him or her to keep the peace or to be of good behaviour, as the case may be, and the commission or attempt to commit or the aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring the commission of an offence punishable with imprisonment, wherever it may be committed, or in the case where a person has been required to enter into a bond because of the conduct mentioned in section 13(a) or (b), the further dissemination or attempt to disseminate or the abetting of the dissemination of any seditious matter or any matter which is likely, in the opinion of the court, to be dangerous to peace and order within Uganda, shall be a breach of the bond.

(2)Whenever a chief magistrate or a magistrate grade I receives information that any person who has executed a bond under section 22 has committed a breach of that bond, he or she shall, by summons or warrant require that person and his or her sureties, if any, to appear before him or her and shall inquire into the truth of the information upon which the summons or warrant was issued in the same manner as provided in section 21 and if satisfied that there has been a breach of the bond, the chief magistrate or magistrate shall declare the amount of the bond to be forfeited and adjudge the persons bound thereby, whether as principal or sureties or any of them, to pay the sum in which they are respectively bound.

(3)A magistrate who declares the amount of a bond to be forfeited may, instead of adjudging any person to pay the whole sum in which he or she is bound, adjudge that person to pay part only of the sum or may remit the sum.

(4)Payment of any sum adjudged to be paid under this section, including any costs awarded, may be enforced, collected and applied as if it were a fine and as if the adjudication were a conviction.

(5)A person aggrieved by an order declaring any bond to be forfeited may appeal to the High Court.