Bill Watch 30/2019 Tripartite Negotiating Forum Act Gazetted 11 June 2019 and Coming Up in Parliament This Week Question Time will, as usual, be on Thursday afternoon. There are eleven written questions with notice on the Order Paper already; at least six have gone unanswered from last year. Coming up in the National Assembly Bills Bills about to be passed and sent to the Senate Microfinance Amendment Bill Consumer Protection Bill On Thursday 30th May the National Assembly went through the Committee Stages of both these Bills, amended them and transmitted them to the PLC for its report on the constitutionality of the amendments. The PLC met last week and cleared both Bills. This means that the National Assembly can now pass both Bills on 11th June and send them to the Senate, which in turn should be able to start. Education Amendment Bill This Bill is item 1 on the National Assembly’s Order Paper for Tuesday 11th June. Public hearings have been held and the portfolio committee’s report on the public’s views should by now be ready for presentation. Zimbabwe Investment and Development Agency Bill [link] : PLC report ready This Bill was given its First Reading and sent to the PLC on 9th May. The PLC’s report has been completed and may be announced today, clearing the way for the start of the Second Reading stage. Maintenance of Peace and Order Bill [link] : Still under consideration by PLC This Bill, too, was given its First Reading and sent to the PLC on 9th May – but is still under consideration. Legal commentators have criticised much of the controversial Bill as being inconsistent with the Constitution – for example, see Bill Watch 24/2019 [link]. Motions Early agenda items for today include for continuation of adjourned debates on motions on: the President’s speech opening the current session; the ZHRC’s Report on the 2018 Harmonised Elections; the Judicial Service Commission’s Report for the year 2018. New motions listed thereafter concern: the Report of the Delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union Meeting on the Adoption of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration held in Rabat, Morocco on 6th and 7th December 2018; a call to Government to take measures to economically empower and safeguard the welfare of Veterans of the Liberation Struggle – was veterans, war collaborators and ex-detainees – including aligning the relevant pieces of legislation to the Constitution; a call decentralise the collection of vehicle licence fees and road user charges to

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