2016 LOCAL GOVERNMENT LAWS AMENDMENT No, 8 under the Public Accountants and Auditors Act [Chapter 27:12], in which event the Civil Service Commission shall submit to the Minister two lists of nominees of which one list shall consist at least three and not more than six persons qualified as provided in subsection (2)(b), and the other list shall consist of at least three and not more than six persons registered under the Public Accountants and Auditors Act [Chapter 27:12]: Provided that if either of the original lists consists of fewer than six nominees, the Minister may request an additional nominee or list of nominees so that the total number of nominees including those in the original list does not exceed six. (4) In accepting nominations for appointment to the tribunal in terms of subsections (2) and (3), the Minister shall notify the Law Society of Zimbabwe and Civil Service Commission of the names of at least one alternate for the office of chairperson of the tribunal (drawn from the list of nominees for that post) and one alternate for each of the other two appointees of the tribunal (drawn from the list of nominees supplied for those posts) who shall assume the chairpersonship or membership of the tribunal in case any such office becomes vacant in the course of the tribunal’s proceedings. (5) In nominating or appointing members or alternates to a tribunal the Law Society of Zimbabwe and the Civil Service Commission, as the case may be, must be mindful of the requirement that the tribunal should consist of members of both sexes. (6) A person shall not be eligible for appointment to an independent tribunal if— . (a) he or she is not a citizen of Zimbabwe ordinarily resident in Zimbabwe; or (b) he or she has, in terms of a law in force in any country— (i) been adjudged or otherwise declared insolvent or bankrupt and has not been rehabilitated or discharged; or (ii) he or she has, within the period of five years immediately preceding the date of his or her proposed appointment, been sentenced in any country to a term of imprisonment of six months or more, imposed without the option of fine, and has not received a free pardon. (7) Members of the tribunal shall be paid such sitting and other allowances from the funds of the local authority affected by the suspension of the mayor, chairperson or councillor, whose removal from office the) are considering, at such rate as shall be fixed in a statutory instrument: Provided that the local authority concerned is entitled (in terms of paragraph 6 of the Fourth Schedule) to seek from the tribunal an order of reimbursement of all or part of the costs it incurred under this subsection if the mayor, chairperson or councillor is removed from office. (8) The head of the Ministry shall provide such secretarial and support services as may be required by a tribunal. 215