266. Necessity in relation to other crimes. PART XVIII OBEDIENCE TO ORDERS 267. Interpretation in Part XVIII of Chapter XIV. 268. Requirements for obedience to lawful orders to be complete defence. 269. When obedience to illegal orders affords complete defence. PART XIX T RIVIALITIES 270. Person charged with trivial crime entitled to acquittal. PART XX UNAVOIDABLE ACCIDENT 271. Interpretation in Part XX of Chapter XIV. 272. Requirements for unavoidable accident to be complete defence. CHAPTER XV P ERMISSIBLE V ERDICTS 273. 274. 275. 276. Persons charged with crime may be found guilty of unfinalised crime or assisting perpetrator of crime. Conviction for crime other than that charged. Verdicts permissible on particular charges. Sentence imposable where person found guilty on competent verdict. CHAPTER XVI GENERAL 277. 278. 279. 280. 281. 282. 283. 284. Criminal liability of corporations and associations and their members, employees and agents. Relation of criminal to civil or disciplinary proceedings. Concurrent and alternative charges. Standard scale of fines and amendment thereof. References in enactments to common law crimes. Amendment of Acts. Repeals. Savings. SCHEDULES First Schedule: Standard Scale of Fines. Second Schedule: Correspondence of References to Crimes in Code or other Enactments to Provisions of Code Defining such Crimes Third Schedule: Acts Constituting Criminal Nuisance. Fourth Schedule: Permissible Verdicts. Fifth Schedule: Correspondence of Common Law Crimes with Codified Crimes. AN ACT to consolidate and amend the criminal law of Zimbabwe; to amend the Interpretation Act [Chapter 1:01], the Burial and Cremation Act [Chapter 5:03], the Customary Marriages Act [Chapter 5:07], the Marriage Act [Chapter 5:11], the Magistrates Court Act [Chapter 7:10], and the Prisons Act [Chapter 7:11]; to repeal the Aircraft (Offences) Act [Chapter 9:01] and the Concealment of Birth Act [Chapter 9:04]; to amend the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act [Chapter 9:07]; to repeal Infanticide Act [Chapter 9:12] and the Miscellaneous Offences Act [Chapter 9:15]; to amend the Prevention of Corruption Act [Chapter 9:16], and the Stock Theft Act [Chapter 9:18]; to repeal the Witchcraft Suppression Act [Chapter 9:19] and the Sexual Offences Act [Chapter 9:21]; to amend the Anti-Corruption Commission Act [Chapter 9:22], the Public Order and Security Act [Chapter 11:17], the Police Act [Chapter 11:10], the Inland Waters Shipping Act [Chapter 13:06], the Tourism Act [Chapter 14:20], the Dangerous Drugs Act [Chapter 15:02], to amend the Medicines and Allied Substances Control Act [Chapter 15:03]; the Public Health Act [Chapter 15:09], the Termination of Pregnancy Act [Chapter 15:10], the Housing and Building Act [Chapter 22:07] and the Mental Health Act, 1996; and to provide for matters connected with or incidental to the foregoing.