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(2) A majority of the members of the Parliamentary Legal Committee must be qualified to
practise in Zimbabwe as legal practitioners unless there are insufficient such persons eligible to
be appointed to the Committee.
(3) The Parliamentary Legal Committee must examine—
(a) every Bill, other than a Constitutional Bill, before it receives its final vote in the Senate
or the National Assembly;
(b) any Bill which has been amended after being examined by the Committee, before the
Bill receives its final vote in the Senate or the National Assembly;
(c) every statutory instrument published in the Gazette;
(d) every draft Bill which has been referred to the Committee by a Vice-President or a
Minister; and
(e) every draft statutory instrument which has been referred to the Committee by the
authority empowered to make the instrument;
and must report to Parliament or to the Vice-President, Minister or authority, as the case may
be, whether it considers any provision in the Bill, statutory instrument or draft contravenes or, if
enacted, would contravene any provision of this Constitution.
(4) When examining any statutory instrument or draft statutory instrument the
Parliamentary Legal Committee must report to Parliament or to the Vice-President, Minister or
authority concerned whether it considers any provision in the instrument is or, if enacted, would
be ultra vires the enabling Act of Parliament.
(5) An Act of Parliament or Standing Orders may confer further functions on the
Parliamentary Legal Committee.
6.38 Remuneration of President of Senate, Speaker and members of Parliament
(1) The remuneration of the Speaker and the President of the Senate—
(a) must be prescribed in an Act of Parliament and is a charge on the Consolidated
Revenue Fund;
(b) must not be reduced while they hold office; and
(c) must continue to be paid to them after a dissolution until they cease to hold office.
(2) The remuneration paid to members of Parliament must be prescribed under an Act of
Parliament.
6.39 Clerk of Parliament and other staff
(1) The Committee on Standing Rules and Orders, with the approval of the National
Assembly, must appoint an officer to be known as the Clerk of Parliament to be responsible,
subject to Standing Orders and to the control and supervision of the Speaker, for the day-to-day
administration of Parliament.
(2) The Clerk of Parliament is appointed for a six-year term, and may be re-appointed for
one further such term.
(3) The Clerk of Parliament must vacate his or her office—
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