Bill Watch 53/2019 [Update on Statutory Instruments: Part 2] 16 October 2019 by their insurers. Another view, however, is that these prescribed assets were increased so that the State has access to more financial resources that would not otherwise be available to the State from investors from the money market. High Court civil cases fees: correction of error SI 207/2019 [link] corrects an error in SI 187/2019 [link] by replacing item 2 of the Schedule of fees [item 2 deals with court fees chargeable for a summons in civil cases claiming payment of money. Persons who may lawfully acquire, possess and supply industrial hemp SI 208/2019 [link] is a set of regulations, made by the Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs in terms of section 161(g) of the Criminal Law Code, listing the following as persons who may lawfully acquire, possess and supply hemp: • any “farmer” [the term is not defined] so authorised in writing by the Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement, • the State or any of its organs on farms operated by the State or by any State organ, as long as they are cultivating “industrial hemp” [there is a definition] for industrial purposes. At least, that is how Veritas interprets the regulations, which could – and should – be much more clearly and tightly stated, given that the they are intended to create an additional class of persons exempted from the criminal penalties normally associated with possession of cannabis plants, prepared cannabis and cannabis resin. Gazette of 23rd September 2019 New Standard Scale of Fines in ZWL dollars SI 209/2019 [link] by the Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs amends an Act of Parliament – it repeals and replaces the First Schedule to the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act. The enabling provisions cited by the Minister – section 280 of that Act and section 24(1) of the Finance (No. 2) Act, 2019 (No. 7 of 2019) – expressly confer the power to amend Acts of Parliament. This SI, too, is open to challenge on the basis of Mlilo's case. It is important to remember that the new figures apply only to offences committed on or after the date the SI was gazetted, 23rd September. Some examples of the new levels are: level 1 is ZWL$ 40, level 3 is ZWL$ 100 [the maximum fine to be imposed by a police officer for a petty offence under the admission of guilt procedure], level 14, the highest level, is ZWL$ 30 000. Gazettes of 27th September 2019 ZWL dollar wages and allowances for Cotton Industry SI 210/2019 [link] records a collective bargaining agreement fixing wages and allowances in the cotton industry, back-dated to 1st June. Customs duty suspensions (1) disabled persons and (2) commercial tyres imported by approved importers SI 211/2019 [link] fine-tunes the effect of the suspension of duty for motor vehicles imported for disabled persons by section 4 of the principal regulations, SI 257/2003.