Chapter 17:11
Older Persons Act as at 15th September 2016
Act 1/2012
ACT
To provide for the well-being of older persons; to provide for the appointment of
a Director for Older Persons Affairs, the establishment of an Older Persons
Board; to create an Older Persons Fund; and to provide for matters
connected therewith, or incidental thereto.
ENACTED by the President and Parliament of Zimbabwe.
PART 1
PRELIMINARY
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Short title and date of commencement
(1) This Act may be cited as the Older Persons Act, 2011.
(2) This Act shall come into operation on a date to be fixed by the President by statutory
instrument.
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Interpretation
In this Act⎯
“adjustment order” means an adjustment order served in terms of section 11;
“Board” means Older Persons Board established in terms of section 4;
“destitute or indigent”, in relation to an older or other person, has the meaning given to that
term by the Social Welfare Assistance Act [Chapter 17:05];
“Director” means the Director of Older Persons Affairs referred in section 3;
“home” means any premises specifically provided for the residence of older persons;
“Minister” means the Minister of Labour and Social Services or any other Minister to whom
the President may assign the administration of this Act;
“older person” means a citizen of Zimbabwe aged sixty-five years or above, who is
ordinarily resident therein;
“ordinarily resident” means, in relation to an older person, an older person who resides in
Zimbabwe for not less than one hundred and eighty-one days in any calendar year.
PART II
OLDER PERSONS BOARD
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Director for Older Persons Affairs
(1). There shall be a Director for Older Persons Affairs who shall be the person for the time
being, holding the office of the Director of Social Welfare or lawfully acting in that capacity.
(2) The functions of the Director shall be⎯
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