ZIMBABWE YOUTH COUNCIL ACT (as at 1st February 2012))
PART V
CLUBS
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Registration of clubs.
Membership of clubs.
Limitation of entrance fees and subscriptions of clubs.
Registered clubs to keep proper books and accounts.
Registered clubs not to compete with clubs not registered.
Cancellation and suspension of registration.
PART VI
GENERAL
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National Colours.
Appeal to Minister.
Protection of employment of persons representing Zimbabwe.
Regulations.
AN ACT to provide for the establishment of the Zimbabwe Youth Council and to provide for the
functions thereof; to provide for the registration and regulation of clubs and national associations;
to provide for National Colours for youth; and to provide for matters incidental to or connected
with the foregoing.
[Date of commencement: 30th March, 1984.]
“Minister” means the Minister of National
Affairs, Employment Creation and Co-operatives
or any other Minister to whom the President may,
from time to time, assign the administration of this
Act;
PART I
PRELIMINARY
1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the Zimbabwe Youth
and Sports and Recreation Councils Act [Chapter
25:19].
(Definition as inserted by s. 2 of Act No. 16 of 1997)
“national, provincial or district association”
means any group or body of persons operating in
Zimbabwe and having as its principal object the
promotion or organization on a national, provincial or district basis, as the case may be, of the
organized activities of youth;
“registered national association” means a
national association registered in terms of section
fourteen;
“registered club” means a club registered in
terms of section seventeen;
2 Interpretation
In this Act—
“appointed member” means the chairman of
the Council or a member of the Council appointed
in terms of subparagraph (i) of paragraph (b) of
subsection (1) of section three B;
(Definition as inserted by s. 2 of Act No. 16 of 1997)
“club” means any group of persons associated
together for the purposes of youth activities on a
communal, regional, provincial, national or
international basis;
“Council” means the Youth Council established
in terms of section three;
“Director” means the Director of the Council
referred to in section five;
PART II
ZIMBABWE YOUTH COUNCIL
3 Establishment of Council
There is hereby established a council, to be
known as the Zimbabwe Youth Council, which
shall be a body corporate capable of suing and
being sued in its corporate name and, subject to
this Act, of performing all acts that bodies corporate may by law perform.
(Definition as amended by s. 2 of Act No. 16 of 1997)
“elected member” means a member of the
Council elected in terms of subsection (2) of
section three B or deemed to have been elected in
terms of subsection (3) of that subsection;
(Definition as inserted by s. 2 of Act No. 16 of 1997)
[Chapter 25:19]
[Section 3 repealed and sections 3 to 3G substituted
by s. 3 of Act 16/1997.]
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