ss 1–8 PRESIDENTIAL POWERS (TEMPORARY MEASURES) ACT DISTRIBUTED BY VERITAS VERITAS MAKES EVERY EFFORT TO ENSURE THE PROVISION OF RELIABLE INFORMATION, BUT CANNOT TAKE LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR INFORMATION SUPPLIED. CHAPTER 10:20 PRESIDENTIAL POWERS (TEMPORARY MEASURES) ACT Act 1/1986. AN ACT to empower the President to make regulations dealing with situations that have arisen or are likely to arise and that require to be dealt with as a matter of urgency; and to provide for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. [Date of commencement: 25th April, 1986.] 1 Short title This Act may be cited as the Presidential Powers (Temporary Measures) Act [Chapter 10:20]. (2) Before making any regulations in terms of section two, the President shall pay due regard to any representations received by him in response to a notice referred to in subsection (1). (3) A failure to publish a notice in terms of subsection (1) shall not invalidate any regulations subsequently made by the President in terms of section two. 2 Making of urgent regulations (1) When it appears to the President that— (a) a situation has arisen or is likely to arise which needs to be dealt with urgently in the interests of defence, public safety, public order, public morality, public health, the economic interests of Zimbabwe or the general public interest; and (b) the situation cannot adequately be dealt with in terms of any other law; and (c) because of the urgency, it is inexpedient to await the passage through Parliament of an Act dealing with the situation; then, subject to the Constitution and this Act, the President may make such regulations as he considers will deal with the situation. (2) Regulations made in terms of subsection (1) may provide for any matter or thing for which Parliament can make provision in an Act: Provided that such regulations shall not provide for any of the following matters or things— (a) authorizing the withdrawal or issue of moneys from the Consolidated Revenue Fund or prescribing the manner in which withdrawals may be made therefrom; or (b) condoning unauthorized expenditure from the Consolidated Revenue Fund; or (c) providing for any other matter or thing which the Constitution requires to be provided for by, rather than in terms of, an Act; or (d) amending, adding to or repealing any of the provisions of the Constitution. 3 Notice of intention to make regulations (1) Unless he considers it inexpedient to do so because of the urgency of the situation, before making any regulations in terms of section two the President shall cause a notice to be published in the Gazette or in any other manner he considers appropriate— (a) stating that he proposes to make the regulations concerned and summarizing their content; and (b) calling upon any person who wishes to make representations in regard to the proposed regulations to lodge his representations at such place and in such manner and within such time as may be specified in the notice. 827 [Chapter 10:20]