IMMIGRATION ACT (as at 10th October, 2006)
SCHEDULE (Sections 14 and 42)
SPECIFIED OFFENCES
PART I
1. Treason, sedition or public violence.
2. Murder or assault with intent to murder or to do grievous bodily harm or with
any other particular intent.
3. Arson or malicious damage to property.
4. Rape, incest, sodomy, bestiality, indecent assault, any unnatural offence, a
contravention of any enactment forbidding carnal intercourse or indecent or
immoral acts with a girl under a specified age or with an idiot or imbecile, indecent exposure, public indecency, criminal injuria or abortion or the termination
of pregnancy in contravention of any enactment.
5. Bigamy
6. Plagium or abduction.
7. Theft, receiving stolen property knowing it to be stolen, fraud, forgery or uttering a forged document knowing it to be forged.
8. Counterfeiting coin or currency or uttering coins or currency knowing them to
be counterfeit.
9. Perjury, subornation of perjury or defeating or obstructing the administration of
justice.
10. Robbery, bribery or extortion or housebreaking with intent to commit an offence.
11. Dealing in or being in possession of unwrought precious metal or rough or
uncut precious stones in contravention of any enactment.
12. Dealing in or being in possession of dangerous or habit-forming drugs or being
in possession of any pipes or other utensils used in connection with the smoking
of such drugs in contravention of any enactment.
13. Driving or riding in a vehicle without the consent of the owner or person in
lawful charge thereof in contravention of any enactment.
14. Any offence in terms of any enactment which, in the opinion of the Minister or,
in the case of an appeal to a magistrates court, in the opinion of the magistrate,
is substantially similar to any offence at common law specified in this Part.
15. Any attempt, incitement or conspiracy to commit an offence specified in paragraphs 1 to 14.
16. Any offence, not being an offence under the law of Zimbabwe, by whatever
name called, which, in the opinion of the Minister or, in the case of an appeal to
a magistrates court, in the opinion of the magistrate, is substantially similar to
an offence specified in paragraphs 1 to 15.
PART II
1. Any offence at common law or in terms of any enactment not specified in Part I,
if a fine of not less than level six or a sentence of imprisonment without the option of a fine has been imposed, whether such fine or imprisonment is suspended
or not.
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