Constitution. 1. There is no emerging right articulated that is missing from Chapter 4 which is purported to have been infringed by the impugned provisions. Article 45 is therefore not applicable in the circumstances. 1. Article 20 (2) is a promotional Article requiring respect for, the upholding of and promotion of all the rights and freedoms set out in chapter 4 by all organs and agencies of Government and all persons. One needs therefore to refer to a specific right enshrined in Chapter 4 first before invoking Article 20(2). It cannot be invoked alone. It must be coupled with the specific right referred to in Chapter 4 before any finding can be made of infringement of the same. 1. The respondent, and indeed any other person in Uganda, is obliged to comply with Article 20 of the Constitution by respecting, upholding and promoting the rights and freedoms enshrined in Chapter 4 of the Constitution. It is clear that the respondents are in breach of this Article in relation to the Chapter 4 rights that we have found contravened. 1. It is contended that the impugned provisions are contrary to Article 59 of the Constitution. We agree. In so far as they disenfranchised people with disabilities that did not belong to NUDIPU for the election of 2011 the said provisions were contrary to Article 59 (1), (2) and (3). 1. It is further contended that the Electoral commission failed to maintain a voters' register for persons with disabilities as it is obliged to do under Article 61(1) (e) which provides, "(1) The Electoral Commission shall have the following functions" (a) (c) (e) to compile, maintain, revise, and update the voters register;" 1. What this provision requires the Electoral Commission to do is to maintain a voters' register and not voters' registers. A voter, whether under universal adult suffrage, or under any other mechanism or procedure set up by Parliament may have to be registered on that voters' register. There is no requirement for separate registers for each special interest group, though of course, there are qualifications necessary to belong to each special interest group which are the sine qua non for participation of such persons in the elections of representatives for each special interest group. This information would presumably have to be captured in the voters register maintained by the Electoral Commission under this Article, where such persons presumably qualify to be on the voters' register. 1. It is our view therefore that Article 61(e) of the Constitution was not infringed by the impugned provisions. 1. We do not see how the independence of the Electoral Commission under Article 62 is in issue in regard to the new provisions for elections of representatives of people with disabilities. 1. We are of the view, that Article 63, read as a whole, deals with constituencies for election of directly elected members of Parliament under Article 78(1) (a) of the Constitution and is not applicable to "constituencies' for special interest groups. This can be inferred or gathered from its provisions or content.

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