CONSTITUTION OF ZIMBABWE as amended by Amendment No. 17
duction 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.
(5) A Bill referred to in subparagraph (4) 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.
(6) A Bill referred to in subparagraph (4) 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 (4) and (5) apply and that the Bill
may lawfully be presented for assent by virtue of those provisions.
(7) A Bill presented to the President for assent pursuant to a resolution of the
House of Assembly referred to in subparagraph (5) shall be deemed to have been duly
passed by Parliament in the form in which it is presented to the President.
(8) For the purposes of this paragraph, a Bill referred to in 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).
(9) In this Constitution, “Money Bill” means a public Bill which contains only provisions dealing with all or any of the following matters—
(a) the imposition, repeal, remission, alteration, administration or regulation of
taxation or any exemption therefrom;
(b) the imposition, for the payment of debt or other financial purposes, including expenses of administration, of charges on the Consolidated Revenue
Fund or any other public funds or on moneys provided by Parliament or the
variation or repeal of any such charges;
(c) the grant of moneys for the services of the Government, including expenses
of administration, or the grant of money to any authority or person or the
variation or revocation of any such grant;
(d) the appropriation, receipt, custody, investment, issue or audit of accounts of
public money;
(e) the making or raising of any loan by the Government or the repayment
thereof or the establishment, alteration, administration or abolition of any
sinking fund provided in connection with any such loan;
(f) the guarantee given by or on behalf of the Government in respect of any
loan raised by any person and any conditions which are attached to such
guarantee;
(g) the compounding or remitting of any debt and the condoning of any failure
to collect taxes;
(h) the condoning of unauthorized expenditure;
(i) subordinate matters which are ancillary or incidental to any of the foregoing
matters;
and any reference in this subparagraph to taxation, public funds, public money, debt,
taxes or expenditure shall not be construed as including a reference to any taxation
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