87. No retrial where conviction quashed.
88. Enforcement of orders, etc.
88A. [Repealed]
PART IX
CANTONMENTS AND P ROTECTED AREAS
89.
90.
91.
92.
93.
94.
Declaration of cantonments.
Prohibition of entry into cantonments.
Authority to enter cantonments.
Right of way and loitering.
Cantonment police.
Protected areas.
PART X
SPECIAL P OWERS IN RELATION TO DEFENCE
95. Commandeering and billeting.
96. Expropriation of land for defence purposes.
97. Protection of defence stores.
PART XI
GENERAL
98. President may publish defence agreements.
99. Unauthorized sale or wearing of uniforms, etc.
100. Forgery of military documents, impersonation and unlawful possession of such documents.
101. Personation.
102. Obstructing Defence Forces.
103. Harbouring, aiding or inducing members of Defence Forces to dereliction of duty.
104. Refusing information or giving false information.
105. General penalties.
106. Sale or supply of liquor at mess of canteen.
106A. General offence: failure to comply with provisions of Act.
107. General provisions as to evidence.
108. Administration of oaths.
109. Declaration of active service.
110. Deductions for barrack damage.
111. Establishment or declaration of detention barracks.
112. Powers in connection with training.
113. Regulations.
114. Savings.
FIRST SCHEDULE: Military Offences.
SECOND SCHEDULE: Conviction of Offence Other than that Charged.
AN ACT to consolidate and amend the law relating to the Defence Forces Service Commission and
the Defence Council, the establishment, constitution, command, administration, organization, duties,
training, co-operation with other Military Forces and discipline of the Defence Forces, the declaration
of cantonments and protected areas, the requisitioning of buildings, vehicles and other things for the
use of the Defence Forces in certain circumstances, the expropriation of land for defence purposes and
the protection of defence stores; to provide for the publication of defence agreements and to create
powers in connection with the training of units of the Defence Forces; and to provide for matters
incidental to or connected with the foregoing.
[Date of commencement: 3rd November, 1972.]
WHEREAS sections 96, 97 and 98 of the Constitution provide as follows—
96 (1) For the purpose of defending Zimbabwe, there shall be Defence Forces consisting of an Army, an Air
Force and such other branches, if any, as may be provided for by or under an Act of Parliament.
(2) The supreme command of the Defence Forces shall vest in the President as Commander -in -Chief and, in
the exercise of his functions as such, the President shall have power to determine the operational use of the
Defence Forces.