Data-center law in Uganda

National jurisdiction · as of 2026-09-05

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Uganda has no data-center-specific siting, permitting, or utility statute; a data-center project is governed by the general investment framework of the Investment Code Act, 2019, which revised the Investment Code Act, 1991.

The Act is administered by the Uganda Investment Authority (UIA), a statutory agency mandated to initiate and support measures that enhance investment in Uganda and to advise Government on investment-promotion policy, and its Schedule 2 lists information technology and the telecommunication industry among the priority areas that make an investor eligible for incentives under section 12.

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Instruments on record

1 instrument on record, grouped by the family of approval each one governs.

Public agreements

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Investment Code Act, 2019

In force

Investment Code Act, 2019

Effective 2019-03-29 · Applies to both

The Investment Code Act, 2019 revised the Investment Code Act, 1991 and is the current statutory basis for the Uganda Investment Authority (UIA), which the UIA's own site describes as a statutory agency mandated to initiate and support measures that enhance investment in Uganda and to advise Government on policies conducive to investment promotion and growth.

Both foreign and domestic investors are eligible for an investment licence, which the UIA states is issued free of charge, provided they meet the required capital threshold: a minimum capital investment of USD 250,000 for a foreign investor and USD 50,000 for a domestic investor. Section 12 makes an investor eligible for incentives where, among other qualifications, it engages in a priority area specified in Schedule 2. Schedule 2 lists information technology and the telecommunication industry among those priority areas.

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