Section 56: Facts courts accept without proof in Uganda
56.Facts of which court must take judicial notice
(1)The court shall take judicial notice of the following facts—
(a)all Acts of Parliament and statutory instruments and all Acts of Parliament of the United Kingdom now or heretofore in force in Uganda;
(b)all statutory instruments or subsidiary legislation in force in any part of Uganda;
(c)the course of proceedings of Parliament, and of the councils or other authorities for the purpose of making laws and regulations established under any law for the time being relating thereto;
(d)the accession and the sign manual of the Head of the Commonwealth;
(e)the seals of all the courts of Uganda, duly established; all seals of which the English courts take judicial notice; the seals of courts of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction and the seals of notaries public, and all any other seals which any person is authorised to use by any Act of Parliament or other written law;
(f)the accession to office, names, titles, functions and signatures of the persons filling for the time being any public office in any part of Uganda, if the fact of their appointment to that office is notified in the Gazette;
(g)the existence, title and national flag of every State or Sovereign recognised by the Government;
(h)the divisions of time, the geographical divisions of the world, and public festivals, fasts and holidays notified in the Gazette;
(i)the territories of the Commonwealth;
(j)the commencement, continuance and termination of hostilities between the Government and any other State or body of persons;
(k)the names of the members and officers of the court, and of their deputies and subordinate officers and assistants, and also of all officers acting in execution of its process, and of all advocates and other persons authorised by law to appear or act before it; and
(l)the rule of the road on land or at sea.
(2)In all these cases and also on matters of public history, literature, science or art, the court may resort for its aid to appropriate books or documents of reference.
(3)If the court is called upon by any person to take judicial notice of any fact, it may refuse to do so until that person produces any such book or document as it may consider necessary to enable it to do so.
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