Act 1
Uganda Communications Act
2013
“Minister” means the Minister responsible for information and
communications technology;
“operator” means a person licensed to provide a communication
or broadcasting service;
“person” includes any individual, company, association, or body
of persons corporate or unincorporate;
“postal article” includes any letter, postcard, newspaper, book,
document, pamphlet, pattern, sample packet, small packet,
parcel package or other article tendered for dispatch or specified
in the International Postal Union or in the licence of an operator;
“postal services” means the services performed and facilities
provided in connection with—
(a) the collection, transmission and delivery by land,
water or air of postal articles;
(b) the issue of postage stamps and the use of franking
machines;
(c) the issue and payment of money from one place to
another or address commonly referred to as money
ordering;
“producer” includes a person who is at any given time, in charge
of programme production and transmission to the public by
means of any electronic apparatus;
“radio communication” means the transmitting or receiving over
paths which are not provided by any material substance
constructed or arranged for that purpose, of
electromagnetic energy of a frequency not exceeding three
million megahertz being energy which either—
(a) serves for the conveyance of messages, sound or
visual images, whether messages are actually received
by any person or not, or for the actuation or control of
machinery or apparatus; or
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