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PRIVATE VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATIONS ACT
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Registrar may dissolve certain organizations.
Regulations.
AN ACT to provide for the registration of private voluntary organizations, for the control of the collection of
contributions for the objects of such organizations and of certain institutions, and for matters incidental thereto.
[Date of commencement: 1st September, 1967.]
PART I
PRELIMINARY
(i) any institution or service maintained and
controlled by the State or a local authority; or
(ii) any religious body in respect of activities
confined to religious work; or
(iii) any trust established directly by any enactment
or registered with the High Court; or
(iv) any educational trust approved by the Minister;
or
(v) any body or association of persons, corporate or
unincorporate, the benefits from which are
exclusively for its own members; or
(vi) any health institution registered under the
Health Professions Act [Chapter 27:19], in
respect of activities for which it is required to
be registered under that Act; 3 or
(vii) any body or association in respect of activities
carried on for the benefit of a hospital or
nursing home which is approved by the
Minister; or
(viii) any political organization in respect of work
confined to political activities; or
(ix) the Zimbabwe Red Cross Society established by
the Zimbabwe Red Cross Society Act [Chapter
17:08]; or
(x) such other bodies, associations or institutions as
may be prescribed;
“register” means register under section nine;
“Registrar” means the Registrar of Private Voluntary
Organizations referred to in section five;
“secretary”, in relation to a private voluntary
organization, means the person for the time being
responsible for the affairs of such organization.
(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), where contributions
are collected from the public in respect of a body or
association referred to in subparagraph (v) or (vii), whether
or not such body or association is formed under any
enactment, the provisions of this Act, in so far as they are
not inconsistent with any other enactment applicable to such
body or association, shall apply accordingly.
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Short title
This Act may be cited as the Private Voluntary
Organizations Act [Chapter 17:05].
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Interpretation
(1) In this Act—
“Board” means the Private Voluntary Organizations
Board established by section three;
“contributions” means movable or immovable property,
including money or anything that can be exchanged for or
converted into money—
(a) which is not transferred in fulfilment of a legally
enforceable obligation; and
(b) the mere transfer of which does not confer the right to
claim any consideration except any consideration in
relation to any competition, contest, game, scheme,
arrangement or system in connection with which any
prize may be won;
“contributor”, in relation to the collection of
contributions, means any person from whom contributions
are collected;
“local authority” includes such authority as may be
prescribed;
“Minister” means the Minister of Public Service, Labour
and Social Welfare or any other Minister to whom the
President may, from time to time, assign the administration
of this Act;
“private voluntary organization” means any body or
association of persons, corporate or unincorporate, or any
institution, the objects of which include or are one or more
of the following—
(a) the provision of all or any of the material, mental,
physical or social needs of persons or families;
(b) the rendering of charity to persons or families in
distress;
(c) the prevention of social distress or destitution of
persons or families;
(d) the provision of assistance in, or promotion of,
activities aimed at uplifting the standard of living of
persons or families;
(e) the provision of funds for legal aid;
(f)
the prevention of cruelty to, or the promotion of the
welfare of, animals;
(g) such other objects as may be prescribed;
(h) the collection of contributions for any of the
foregoing;
but does not include—
PART II
PRIVATE VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATIONS BOARD AND
REGISTRAR OF PRIVATE VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATIONS
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Private Voluntary Organizations Board
(1) There is hereby established a board to be known as
the Private Voluntary Organizations Board which shall
exercise the functions conferred upon it by this Act.
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Paragraph amended by s. 151 of Act 6/2000.
[Chapter 17:05]