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Business Names Registration Act

Chapter 105

4. Manner and particulars of registration

Section 4. Manner and particulars of registration Section 4(1) Every firm or person required under this Act to be registered shall furnish by sending by post or delivering to the registrar at the register office a statement in writing in the prescribed form containing the following particulars— Section 4(1)(a) the business name ; Section 4(1)(b) the general

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Partnerships Act, 2010

Act 2 of 2010

Nature of partnership - Mandatory registration

Section Mandatory registration Section A firm carrying on business in Uganda under a business name which does not consist of the true surnames of all partners who are individuals and the corporate names of all partners which are corporations without any addition other than the true first names of individual partners or initials of the first names; and the co

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Investment Code Act, 2019

Act 6 of 2019

Procedure for investment - Investment registration requirements

Section Investment registration requirements Section An application for investment registration shall be accompanied by the following— business plan which shall include— certificate of registration of the business; the name of the investment and detailed information on the type of investment ; the action plan; the date of commencement of operations; detailed

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Trademarks Act, 2010

Act 17 of 2010

Procedure and duration of registration - Saving in respect of use of name, address or description of goods or services

Section Saving in respect of use of name, address or description of goods or services Section The registration of a trademark shall not affect— a bona fide use by a person of his or her own name or the name of his or her place of business or of the name of the place of business of any of his or her predecessors in business; the bona fide use by a person of a

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Value Added Tax Act

Chapter 349

Taxable persons - Registration

Section Registration Section The Commissioner General shall register a person who applies for registration under section 7 and issue to that person a certificate of registration including the VAT registration number unless the Commissioner General is satisfied that that person is not eligible for registration under this Act or, in the case of an application

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Building Societies Act

Chapter 104

Formation and registration - Commencement of business

Section Commencement of business Section No building society shall commence business until it has obtained a certificate of incorporation issued under the provisions of section 6 .

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Cooperative Societies Act

Chapter 107

Registration of societies - Indication of registration on probation

Section Indication of registration on probation Section A society which is registered under section 6(1) shall state in legible letters in all its receipt heads, letter papers, notices, advertisements or other official publications that it is registered probationary and shall indicate the same on a signboard in a conspicuous position outside any premises or

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Uganda Citizenship and Immigration Control Act

Chapter 66

Registration and control of aliens - Registrar of companies to furnish returns concerning alien registered businesses

Section Registrar of companies to furnish returns concerning alien registered businesses Section The registrar of companies and business names shall from time to time upon request by the Director in writing furnish to the Director a list of all registered businesses owned by aliens in Uganda.

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Firearms Act

Chapter 299

Regulation of purchase, possession, manufacture and sale of firearms and ammunition and of other transactions - Registration of business of firearms dealers and gunsmiths

Section Registration of business of firearms dealers and gunsmiths Section Any person who— Any person who applies to be registered as a firearms dealer or gunsmith under section 13 shall state the particulars of every place of business within the area at which he or she proposes to carry on business as a firearms dealer or gunsmith, and the chief licensing o

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Companies Act

Chapter 106

General provisions relating to registration - Power of Registrar to strike defunct companies off register

r to strike defunct companies off register Section The Registrar may, at the request of the company or on his or her own accord, cancel the registration of a company under this Act in accordance with regulations made by the Minister . A company struck off the register under subsection (1) , shall cease to carry on business. The Registrar shall, before cancel

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Registration of Titles Act

Chapter 240

Bringing land under Act - Record Book to be kept

and date of and parties to every such deed or document, by whom executed or signed, and whether registered under the Land Regulations, the Registration of Documents Ordinance, 1904, or the Registration of Documents Act, or not, and if registered the date of the registration; and the Record Book shall be open for inspection by the public during the hours and

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Foreign Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act

Chapter 10

Registration of foreign judgments - Cases in which registered judgments must, or may, be set aside

r may, be set aside Section On an application in that behalf duly made by any party against whom a registered judgment may be enforced, the registration of the judgment — shall be set aside if the registering court is satisfied— For the purposes of this section, the courts of the country of the original court shall, subject to subsection (3) , be deemed to h

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Registration of Persons Act, 2015

Act 4 of 2015

National Identification and Registration Authority - Functions of the Board

s responsible for the general direction and supervision of the Authority . oversee the operations of the Authority ; advise the Minister on registration and identification of persons, related policy and strategic issues; review and approve business and operating plans, budgets, reports and audited financial statements of the Authority ; establish and approve

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Copyright and Neighbouring Rights Act

Chapter 222

Collecting societies - Indication of probationary registration

Section Indication of probationary registration Section A society which is registered on probation shall state in legible letters in all its receipts and letterheads, notices, advertisement or other official publications, that it is registered probationary and shall indicate the same on a signboard in a conspicuous position outside any premises or office in

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Security Interest in Movable Property Act, 2019

Act 8 of 2019

Priority of security interests and competing claims - Security interest in negotiable instruments

instrument has priority over the security interest of a secured creditor in the negotiable instrument where, in the ordinary course of the business of the purchaser— A security interest in a negotiable instrument that is perfected by possession of the negotiable instrument has priority over a security interest in the negotiable instrument that is perfected

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Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgments Act

Chapter 23

2. Enforcement of judgments obtained in superior courts in United Kingdom or Ireland

ion 2(2)(a) the original court acted without jurisdiction; Section 2(2)(b) the judgment debtor , being a person who was neither carrying on business nor ordinarily resident within the jurisdiction of the original court , did not voluntarily appear or otherwise submit or agree to submit to the jurisdiction of that court; Section 2(2)(c) the judgment debtor ,

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Engineers Registration Act

Chapter 271

Membership and procedure of the board - Transaction of business by circulation of papers

Section Transaction of business by circulation of papers Section Notwithstanding section 9 , where the chairperson so directs, a decision of the board may be made without a meeting being held, by the circulation of the relevant papers among all the members and the expression in writing of their views; except that any member shall be entitled to require that

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Advocates (Remuneration & Taxation of Costs) Regulations

Statutory Instrument 123 of 1982

Noncontentious matters - Scale of charges in noncontentious matters

s matters Section Subject to regulation 19 of these Regulations, the scale of charges by an advocate in respect of conveyancing and general business (not being business in any action or transacted in any court or in the chambers of any judge or registrar) shall be regulated as follows— in respect of sales, purchases, mortgages and debentures completed, the r

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Physical Planners' Registration Act

Chapter 302

General - Regulations

instrument, in consultation with the Board , make regulations generally for giving effect to the provisions of this Act. the conduct of the business of the Board and the procedure to be followed by the Board in any inquiry under this Act; the conduct of the affairs of the Society including, elections guidelines for the Executive Council of the Society , fina

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Uganda Registration Services Bureau Act

Chapter 210

Management and staff of the bureau - Secretary to the board

ecretary to the board who shall be appointed by the board on terms and conditions specified in the instrument of appointment. arranging the business at meetings of the board ; taking the minutes of the meetings of the board ; and keeping the records of the decisions and other policy records of the board . The secretary shall, in the performance of his or her