CONSTITUTION OF ZIMBABWE as amended by Amendment No. 17 by, or the funds, money, debts, taxes or expenditure of, a local authority or statutory body. 7 Provisions relating to amendments to Bills (1) Subject to the provisions of this Constitution and Standing Orders, after a Bill has been returned to the House in which it originated, the Senate or the House of Assembly may, by message to the other House pursuant to a resolution, agree to any amendment or withdraw any amendment which has been made to the Bill: Provided that the Senate or the House of Assembly shall not agree to or withdraw any amendment unless the Parliamentary Legal Committee has reported thereon and the provisions of paragraph 4 shall, mutatis mutandis, apply in relation thereto. 8 Report of Parliamentary Legal Committee on statutory instruments (1) If— (a) after considering a report of the Parliamentary Legal Committee that a provision of a statutory instrument is in contravention of the Declaration of Rights or any other provision of this Constitution, the Senate resolves that the provision is in contravention of the Declaration of Rights or any other provision of this Constitution; and (b) within twenty-one sitting days after the passing of the resolution of the Senate referred to in subparagraph (a)— (i) the House of Assembly has not resolved that the provision shall not be repealed; or (ii) the Committee has not reported to the Clerk of Parliament that the provision has been repealed or amended in such a way as, in the opinion of the Committee, to remove the contravention; the Clerk of Parliament shall report the circumstances to the President who shall forthwith, by notice in the Gazette, repeal the provision. (2) The Parliamentary Legal Committee may, at any time before a report of the Committee that a provision of a statutory instrument is in contravention of the Declaration of Rights or any other provision of the Constitution is considered by the Senate, withdraw the report if, in the opinion of the Committee, the provision is repealed or is amended in such a way as, in the opinion of the Committee, to remove the contravention. (3) A provision of a statutory instrument which has been repealed by the President in terms of subparagraph (1) shall cease to be of force with effect from the date of such repeal notwithstanding that some person or authority other than the President may have made the statutory instrument concerned. SCHEDULE 5 (Section 52) [Schedule repealed by section 8 of Act 15 of 1990 - Amendment No. 10] Consolidation 109 1st October, 2005