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(vi) generally, all matters relating to the Commission's work and the electoral
process;
and
(i) to exercise any other functions that may be conferred or imposed on the
Commission by the Electoral Act or any other enactment.
(2) Subject to the Constitution and this Act, the Commission shall not be subject to the
direction or control of any person or authority in the exercise of its functions in terms of
subsection (1) or in the organisation of its staff, procedures and processes.
(3) Subject to this Act, for the better exercise of its functions the Commission shall have
power to do or cause to be done, either by itself or through its agents, all or any of the things
specified in the Second Schedule, either absolutely or conditionally and either solely or
jointly with others.
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Commissioners: qualifications for and terms and conditions of office
The First Schedule applies to the qualifications, terms and conditions of office and
vacation of office of Commissioners.
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Removal of Commissioners from office
(1) A Commissioner may be removed from office only for—
(a) inability to discharge the functions of his or her office, whether arising from
physical or mental incapacity;
(b) conduct that renders him or her unsuitable as a Commissioner.
(2) If the President considers that the question of the removal from office of a
Commissioner ought to be investigated, the President shall appoint a tribunal to inquire into
the matter.
(3) A tribunal appointed under subsection (2) shall consist of not less than three members
selected by the President from the following—
(a) persons who have held office as a judge of the Supreme Court or the High Court;
(b) persons who hold or have held office as a judge of a court having unlimited
jurisdiction in civil or criminal matters in a country in which the common law is
Roman-Dutch or English, and English is an official language;
(c) legal practitioners of not less than seven years’ standing;
one of whom shall be designated by the President as chairman.
(4) It shall be the duty of the association which is constituted under an Act of Parliament
and which represents legal practitioners practising in Zimbabwe to nominate a panel
containing the names of at least five duly qualified legal practitioners for the purposes of
subsection (3)(c)when so required by the President.
(5) A tribunal appointed under subsection (2) shall inquire into the matter with all due
dispatch, and report to the President with a recommendation whether or not the Commissioner
concerned should be removed from office.
(6) The provisions of the Commissions of Inquiry Act [Chapter 10:07] as in force at the
time or any other law substituted for the same shall, mutatis mutandis, apply in relation to a