CONSTITUTION OF ZIMBABWE as amended by Amendment No. 17 as the case may be. 5 Procedure in regard to Bills where certificate of urgency is issued (1) A Vice-President or a Minister may certify that a Bill, other than a Constitutional Bill, originating in the House of Assembly which has been passed by the House of Assembly is so urgent that it is not in the national interest to delay its enactment. (2) If— (a) the Senate and the House of Assembly have not agreed upon the amendments to be made to a Bill in respect of which a certificate has been issued under subparagraph (1) before the expiration of a period of eight sitting days beginning on the day of the introduction of the Bill into the Senate; or (b) a Bill in respect of which a certificate has been issued under subparagraph (1) has not been passed by the Senate before the expiration of a period of eight sitting days beginning on the day of the introduction of the Bill into the Senate; the Bill may, subject to the provisions of this paragraph, be presented to the President for assent in the form in which it was passed by the House of Assembly with such amendments, if any, as the Senate and the House of Assembly may have agreed. (3) A Bill referred to in subparagraph (2) shall not be presented to the President for assent unless a resolution that the Bill be presented to the President for assent has been passed by the House of Assembly after the expiration of a period of eight sitting days beginning on the day of the introduction of the Bill into the Senate. (4) A Bill referred to in subparagraph (2) shall not be presented to the President for assent unless it is accompanied by a certificate from the Speaker stating that the Bill is a Bill to which the provisions of subparagraphs (2) and (3) apply and that the Bill may lawfully be presented for assent by virtue of those provisions. (5) A Bill presented to the President for assent pursuant to a resolution of the House of Assembly referred to in subparagraph (3) shall be deemed to have been duly passed by Parliament in the form in which it is presented to the President. (6) For the purposes of this paragraph, a Bill in respect of which a certificate has been issued under subparagraph (1) shall be deemed to have been introduced into the Senate on the sitting day next following the day on which a copy of the Bill is transmitted to the Senate in accordance with paragraph 2(1). (7) If, in the case of a Bill presented to the President for assent pursuant to a resolution of the House of Assembly referred to in subparagraph (3), the Senate has not considered that Bill in the form in which it was presented to the President for assent, a copy of that Bill certified by the Clerk of Parliament to be in the form in which it was presented to the President for assent shall be transmitted to the Senate immediately after its enactment and the provisions of section 40B and paragraph 4 shall, mutatis mutandis, apply in relation to that Bill. (8) The provisions of subparagraphs (9) and (10) shall apply to a Bill to which the President has assented pursuant to the provisions of this paragraph if the Senate— (a) resolved before the day on which that Bill was enacted that a provision of that Bill, as enacted, was a provision which would, if enacted, be in contravention of the Declaration of Rights; or Consolidation 106 14th September, 2005