Administrative Justice Act as at 15 September 2016
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Commencement: 3rd September, 2004 (date of publication in the Government Gazette).
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ADMINISTRATIVE JUSTICE ACT
Acts 12/2004, 5/2014 (s. 33), 3/2016.1
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
Section
1. Short title.
2. Interpretation and application.
3. Duty of administrative authorities.
4. Relief against administrative authorities.
5. Determining factors.
6. Application for and issue of order to supply reasons.
7. Discretion to entertain applications.
8. Discretion to refuse or to restrict supply of reasons.
9. Intervention by Prosecutor-General.
10. Minister may make regulations.
11. Application of Act to certain administrative authorities or actions limited or excluded.
SCHEDULE:
Administrative Actions in Respect of which Application of Sections 3(1) (c),
3(2) and 6 Excluded or Qualified.
ACT
To provide for the right to administrative action and decisions that are lawful, reasonable
and procedurally fair; to provide for the entitlement to written reasons for
administrative action or decisions; to provide for relief by a competent court against
administrative action or decisions contrary to the provisions of this Act ; and to
provide for matters connected with or incidental to the foregoing.
ENACTED by the President and the Parliament of Zimbabwe.
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Act 5/2014 is the National Prosecuting Authority Act [which amended section 9 of this Act with effect from
2nd January 2015] and Act 3/2016 is the General Laws Amendment Act, 2016 [which amended section 2(1),
in the definition of “uniformed force”, paragraph (c)]
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