CONSTITUTION OF ZIMBABWE as amended by Amendment No. 17 (b) on the dissolution of Parliament next following his election or appointment; (c) if he resigns his seat by notice, in writing, to the President of the Senate or the Speaker, as the case may be, or to the Clerk of Parliament; [Paragraph as substituted by section 11 of Act No. 5 of 2005 – Amendment No. 17, having been previously amended by section 15 of Act 14 of 1996 - Amendment No. 14] (d) if he is absent from twenty-one consecutive sittings during any session without the leave of the Senate or the House of Assembly, as the case may be, and the Senate or the House of Assembly has resolved, by the affirmative votes of more than one half of its total membership, that the seat shall become vacant; [Paragraph as substituted by section 11 of Act No. 5 of 2005 – Amendment No. 17] (e) if, being a member referred to in section 38(1)(a) and having ceased to be a member of the political party of which he was a member at the date of his election to Parliament, the political party concerned, by written notice to the Speaker, declares that he has ceased to represent its interests in Parliament; (f) if he becomes President; (g) if he becomes Speaker; (h) if, being a member referred to in section 38(1)(a), he accepts office as Provincial Governor; (i) if, being a member referred to in section 38(1)(b), he ceases to hold office as Provincial Governor; (j) if he accepts any public office or office as a member of a statutory body or local authority or employment as an employee of a statutory body or local authority; (k) if, being a public officer or a member or employee of a statutory body or local authority at the time he became a member of Parliament, he fails to terminate his appointment or employment as such within fourteen days of the date he became a member of Parliament; (l) in the circumstances set out in section 42; (m) if he is required, by virtue of the provisions of section 43, to vacate his seat; (n) if he is found or declared in accordance with any Act relating to mental health to be mentally disordered or defective as defined in that Act; (o) if he is declared by order of the High Court to be incapable of managing his own affairs; (p) if he 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; (q) if for a continuous period of six months or more he has been the subject of a preventive detention order under any law providing for the preventive detention of persons. [Subsection as substituted by section 9 of Act 31 of 1989 - Amendment No. 9] Consolidation 51 1st October, 2005