CONSTITUTION OF ZIMBABWE as amended by Amendment No. 17
(b) any person who is declared by order of the High Court to be incapable of
managing his own affairs, for so long as that order remains in force;
[Subparagraph as amended by section 13 of Act 25 of 1981 - Amendment No. 2]
(c) any person who has been convicted—
(i) within Zimbabwe of a criminal offence; or
(ii) outside Zimbabwe of an offence by whatever name called which, if
committed within Zimbabwe, would have been a criminal offence;
and sentenced by a court to imprisonment, by whatever name called, for a
term of six months or more, for the period of his imprisonment;
(d) any person who has been convicted of an offence under the Electoral Law
and has been declared by the High Court under the powers conferred by the
Electoral Law to be disqualified for registration as a voter or from voting at
any election, for the period for which he has been so declared to be disqualified;
[Subparagraph as amended by section 13 of Act 25 of 1981 - Amendment No. 2]
(e) any person who has been expelled from Parliament in accordance with
section 43, for a period of five years from the date he vacates his seat under
that section;
[Subparagraph as amended by section 26 of Act 31 of 1989 - Amendment No. 9]
(f) any person who for a continuous period of more than six months is the
subject of a preventive detention order under any law providing for the preventive detention of persons, for the period of his detention.
(3) Any person who is registered on the electoral roll of a constituency shall be
entitled to vote at an election which is held for that constituency unless—
(a) he has then ceased to be a citizen of Zimbabwe; or
(b) he is then, in accordance with the provisions of subparagraph (2), disqualified for registration.
[Subparagraph as substituted by section 14 of Act No. 14 of 1996,
and amended by s. 20 of Act 5 of 2005 with effect from the 14th September, 2005;
latter amendment consequential to repeal of paragraph 3(1)(b) by the same provision.]
(4) For the purposes of subparagraph (2)(c)—
(a) two or more terms of imprisonment that are required to be served consecutively shall be regarded as a single term of imprisonment for the aggregate
period of such terms;
(b) two or more terms of imprisonment that are required to be served concurrently shall be regarded as a single term of imprisonment for the period of
the longest of such terms;
(c) a person shall be regarded as sentenced notwithstanding that the execution
of the sentence or any part thereof has been suspended;
(d) no account shall be taken of any sentence of imprisonment imposed as an
alternative to, or in default of, the payment of a fine.
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