# Museveni assents to Constitution (Amendment) Act removing the presidential age limit Date: 2017 ## The fact On 27 December 2017 President [Yoweri Museveni](/people/yoweri-museveni) assented to the Constitution (Amendment) Act, commonly called the age-limit bill, striking Article 102(b)’s 75-year cap on presidential candidates. Parliament had passed the bill on 20 December. ULII stores the Act as Act 1 of 2018, gazetted 5 January 2018. ## Context He backed and signed the package. MPs voted. Court later nullified some neighbouring term-extension clauses while the age-cap removal stood. 20 December parliamentary vote; 27 December assent; 5 January 2018 gazette. Stored as one 2017 assent Fact. Keep Museveni assents to Constitution (Amendment) Act removing the presidential age limit on 2017-12-27 separate from neighbouring Museveni instruments. The president of Uganda is head of state, head of government, and commander-in-chief of the UPDF under Article 98. He assents to bills Parliament has passed and appoints the Chief of Defence Forces. He does not write OHCHR briefing notes, Electoral Commission gazette tallies, ULII consolidations, or US visa-restriction lists. ## Evidence and sources ULII / Judiciary of Uganda carries the official instrument or communique. Daily Monitor records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is electoral integrity and transfer capacity: a completed term-clock reset that made further ballots legally available to the incumbent. ## What is established and what is not Established: He assented on 27 December 2017; the Act as stored by ULII removed the 75-year presidential age cap. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. Parliament passed. The judiciary later judged neighbouring clauses. Sharing passage is not a reason to drop the assent.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Museveni assents to Constitution (Amendment) Act removing the presidential age limit, not a later speech about Museveni assents to Constitution (Amendment) Act removing the presidential age limit. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Museveni assents to Constitution (Amendment) Act removing the presidential age limit on 2017-12-27 is not a licence to treat every later ULII / Judiciary of Uganda communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Museveni assents to Constitution (Amendment) Act removing the presidential age limit into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He assented. Parliament passed. The judiciary later judged neighbouring clauses. Sharing passage is not a reason to drop the assent. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Yoweri Museveni: https://factrail.ai/people/yoweri-museveni ## Drivers - Museveni incumbency and civic squeeze: https://factrail.ai/drivers/museveni-incumbency-and-civic-squeeze - Electoral Integrity and Competitiveness: https://factrail.ai/drivers/electoral-integrity-and-competitiveness - Capacity for Peaceful Transfer of Power: https://factrail.ai/drivers/capacity-for-peaceful-transfer-of-power ## Sources - https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/national/museveni-signs-age-limit-bill-into-law-1733616 - https://ulii.org/akn/ug/act/2018/1/eng@2018-01-05 ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ug-museveni-age-limit-2017