Dear Charles, I take interest in the law,especially how it impacts on me as an individual in everyday life and as a professional in my field of specilization and because of this it has given a wide insight into several aspects of our laws and though I am not a lawyer, my civic responsibilities have enabled me try to understand our laws and in this respect let me attempt to answer some of your questions:
Does anyone know whether the accompanying regulations and policies are in place to help/guide the civil servants implementing the law? The policies and regulations are in place in the law. As regards civil servants, the Uganda Civil Service Standing Orders apply. There're other statutory instruments such as the UPDF Act, Police Act,etc which I believe would provide the authorities for members of such services and how they relate to your original query regarding births/deaths.People wishing to get employed may be required to proove they are citizens by showing their national identity cards. In banks,hospitals,etc you may be asked to prove your nationality status before receiving a service. 1.Is there any massive citizen education taking place to inform citizens of the mandatory aspects of this law? NIRA has been carrying out campaigns,via media to encourage citizens to get national ID cards. 2.Do we know if this is already taking place? Are births / deaths being registered in the District? How is this taking place in the villages? This is taking place; under the law it is compulsory to register briths and deaths.The law also provides for designation of registration centers in Uganda and abroad.For birth, a birth certificate is issued and for deaths, a death certificate is issued after payment of statutory fees, it is not free. The law also provides for the use of polling centers created by the electoral commission or any other means to access persons to be registered. In the past, NIRA has used the data collected from polling stations for the national indentification register.The information on births and deaths are also available in hospitals near villages and I believe these medical facilities convey the particulars to the relevant authorities. There're other practical aspects that may be a challenge for example if someone dies at home and is burried without fulfilling the statutory death registration and the registrar of deaths and births may be handicapped in similar cases for an accurate register. 3.Who determines the cause of death? According to the law: i.In the case of a death occurring in Uganda of any person who has been attended during the person’s last illness by a medical officer,the medical officer shall sign a certificate stating to the best of the medical officer’s knowledge and belief the cause of death. ii.Subject to the Inquest Act, where an inquest is held on the body of a deceased person, the Magistrate holding the inquest shall forward to the registration officer a certified copy of such finding and upon receipt of such report, shall cause the particulars of such death to be entered in the register in the prescribed manner. iii.Where it is proved that a person has not been seen and has not been heard of for seven years by those who might be expected to have seen or heard of the person if the person were alive, there shall be a rebuttable presumption that the person is dead. iv.A medical officer who refuses or fails without reasonable cause to comply with any of the provisions of this section commits an offence and is liable, on conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or a fine not exceeding twenty four currency points or both. v.The information contained in a certificate of death issued under this Act is presumed to be correct and it may be received as evidence in any judicial proceedings. Milton Anguyo Arua,Uganda -------------------------------------------- On Wed, 17/1/18, <westnilenet-requ...@kym.net> wrote: Subject: WestNileNet Digest, Vol 113, Issue 3 To: westnilenet@kym.net Date: Wednesday, 17 January, 2018, 12:01 Send WestNileNet mailing list submissions to westnilenet@kym.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to westnilenet-requ...@kym.net You can reach the person managing the list at westnilenet-ow...@kym.net When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of WestNileNet digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Fwd: FW: Registration of persons Act 2015 (Charles Male) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 16:19:42 -0500 From: Charles Male <cdm...@gmail.com> To: Kobokonet Koboko <koboko...@yahoogroups.com>, A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile <westnilenet@kym.net> Subject: [WestNileNet] Fwd: FW: Registration of persons Act 2015 Message-ID: <cah4cdc0ete0yfuaoftn1uypyt8til8ygrilheipxvxbknqw...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Thanks you Driliga and Winfred Adukule for your quick response to my request for the Birth Registration Act. Much appreciated! Happy New Year to you both! Interesting piece of legislation modeled after another international jurisdiction. I notice the Act came into force on 26 Mar 2015 which is the date the President of the Republic gave his Assent. Does anyone know whether the accompanying regulations and policies are in place to help/guide the civil servants implementing the law? Is there any massive citizen education taking place to inform citizens of the mandatory aspects of this law? For example: Part V ? Registration of Births 1. Article 28 ? Compulsory registration of births ? Subject to this Act, registration of every birth within Uganda is free and compulsory. Part Vi ? Registration of Deaths 2. Article 41 ? Compulsory registration of births ? Subject to this Act, registration of every death within Uganda is free and compulsory. Part VIII ?Compulsory Registration 3. Article 54 S1 ? The following persons shall register with the Authority a. Citizens of Uganda resident in or outside Uganda.. WOW ? Citizens residing outside Uganda??? 4. Art 57 ? Cancellation of registration? 5. S1 The Authority shall cancel the registration of a person where a person has ceased under the law to be a citizen of Uganda?. WOW!!! Do we know if this is already taking place? Are births / deaths being registered in the District? How is this taking place in the villages? Who determines the cause of death? There are certainly many holes in the law but this can be fixed through amendments to the specific articles and sections that need the changes. For example : Part V: Article 29 Registration of Birth Section 2?Upon registration of a birth by a registration officer, the Authority will allocate a National Identification Number to a child as a citizen of Uganda or Alien Identification Number to a child identified as an alien ? OH my FOOT!!! Should any child born on Ugandan soil NOT be automatically a Ugandan citizen??? If the Americans had insisted that President Obama be given his father?s nationality, he would never have become President of the USA OR ANY OTHER COUNTRY !! Or former Chairman of the joint Chiefs of Staff, Colin Powell would never assent to the top post in the US military if he was given his immigrant father's nationality not the USA citizenship he was given by virtue of being born on American soil! Or worse still NO black American or Canadian would be an American or Canadian or Europen country citizen because one or both of the parents would still be considered an African!!!! Part V: Art 32 Section 2a? requirement for weight or disability at birth? who takes the weight of children in village births? Or in Section 2b) level of education, profession or occupation of mother and previous births?? What has this information got to do with the fact that a child is born? This is irrelevant information!!! Ditto for father in S2c. Part VI, Art 44 Section 4 : A death shall not be registered after the expiration of 3 months from the death except upon the applicant complying with such requirements as may be provided for in regulations ? Wow!! And what do the regulations say. Everyone? please find the time to read this Law?easy read -- only 57 pages. Lots of good information there but I believe a lot more needs to be done to ensure every everyone in Uganda knows the significance of this piece of legislation. Would love to hear your reactions to the law, especially from those of who have had babies born or a relative die on or after March 26 ? the day when the law entered into force. Do you know about the law? Have taken steps to register a child born to you after March 26? Thanks C Charles *From:* Charles Male [mailto:cdm...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Monday, January 15, 2018 9:21 AM *To:* Mal?, Charles <charles.m...@tbs-sct.gc.ca> *Subject:* Fwd: Registration of persons Act 2015 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Diliga Richard" <dilig...@gmail.com> Date: Jan 15, 2018 8:16 AM Subject: Registration of persons Act 2015 To: <cdm...@gmail.com> Cc: Hello Happy new year I have seen someone requesting for this act on kobokonet and i did not figure it well whether is you or another Charles Driliga -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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