173 Continuation of certain Executive offices 15. Notwithstanding any provision of the former Constitution, the following offices which existed on publication day in terms of Schedule 8 to the former Constitution, namely— (a) President and Vice-President; (b) Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister; and (c) Minister and Deputy Minister; continue in existence until the effective date when the first President assumes office under this Constitution, and the persons who held those offices remain in them accordingly. Public Protector 16.(1) The Public Protector Act [Chapter 10:18] is repealed. (2) Any matter that was being dealt with by the Public Protector immediately before the effective date must be transferred to the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission for finalisation. Transfer of funds in old Consolidated Revenue Fund 17. The funds which, immediately before the effective date, stood to the credit of the Consolidated Revenue Fund established by the former Constitution become the Consolidated Revenue Fund established by this Constitution. Courts and legal proceedings 18.(1) In this paragraph— ―pending constitutional case‖ means— (a) an appeal, application or reference in which an alleged contravention of the Declaration of Rights contained in the former Constitution is in issue; or (b) any case in which a constitutional matter, as defined in section 17 14 of this Constitution, is in issue; and which, immediately before the Constitutional Court is constituted in accordance with this Constitution, is pending before the Supreme Court. (2) The Supreme Court of Zimbabwe, the High Court of Zimbabwe, the Labour Court and the Administrative Court, as established immediately before the effective date, are constituted respectively as the Supreme Court, the High Court, the Labour Court and the Administrative Court under this Constitution, and any decision of those courts given before the effective date has effect accordingly. (3) Every person who, immediately before the effective date, presided over the Labour Court or the Administrative Court becomes a judge of the Labour Court or the Administrative Court, as the case may be, on the same conditions of service as apply on that date to judges of the High Court, his or her length of service as a President of the Labour Court or the Administrative Court being deemed to be service as a judge of the High Court. (4) The magistrates courts, traditional courts and any other courts that were established by an Act of Parliament before the effective date continue in existence on and after that day as if

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