Last Change:

06/28/2024

Registration of Persons Act (2015)

Year: 2015

Type: Domestic law

Rights Category: Documentation

Link to external source: https://ulii.org/akn/ug/act/2015/4/eng@2015-03-26
Description

The Registration of Persons Act (2015) is enacted to harmonise and consolidate the law on registration of persons; to provide for registration of individuals; to establish a national identification register; to establish a national registration and identification authority (NIRA); to provide for the issue of national identification cards and aliens identification cards and for related matters. 

Selected provisions
Section 3 - Interpretation ('identity document")

“identity document” includes the following —

...
(f) a valid Uganda or foreign passport or a document that may be used in place of a passport;
(g) a valid driving licence;
(h) a valid residence permit; or
(i) a certificate of acquired citizenship.

Section 30 - Period of registration of birth.

(1) A parent, guardian or the person having charge of a child, shall immediately after the date of birth or finding of a child notify the registration officer for the purpose of registration of the birth of that child.

(2) A birth not registered immediately, shall not be registered unless the registrar is satisfied as to the truth of the particulars and is directed to register them by the Executive Director.

Section 41 - Compulsory registration of deaths.

Subject to this Act, registration of every death within Uganda is free and compulsory.