constituteproject.org PDF generated: 26 Sep 2013, 21:48 133 Enrolment of Acts of Parliament (1) When the President has assented to and signed an Act of Parliament, the Clerk of Parliament must transmit a fair copy of it, authenticated by the President's signature and the public seal of Zimbabwe, to be enrolled in the office of the Registrar of the High Court, and that copy is conclusive evidence of the provisions of the Act unless the Act is revised under an Act of Parliament referred to in subsection (2). (2) An Act of Parliament may provide for the statute law, or any part of it, to be published in revised form and may further provide that. (a) upon being published, the revision is the sole authentic version of the statutes contained in it; (b) a copy of the revision must be deposited in the office of the Registrar of the High Court; and (c) the copy that is deposited in the office of the Registrar of the High Court is conclusive evidence of the provisions of the statutes contained in it. (3) The validity of an Act of Parliament or a revision of the statute law does not depend on its enrolment or deposit under this section. 134 Subsidiary legislation Parliament may, in an Act of Parliament, delegate power to make statutory instruments within the scope of and for the purposes laid out in that Act, but-(a) Parliament's primary law-making power must not be delegated; (b) statutory instruments must not infringe or limit any of the rights and freedoms set out in the Declaration of Rights; (c) statutory instruments must be consistent with the Act of Parliament under which they are made; (d) the Act must specify the limits of the power, the nature and scope of the statutory instrument that may be made, and the principles and standards applicable to the statutory instrument; (e) statutory instruments do not have the force of law unless they have been published in the Gazette; and (f) statutory instruments must be laid before the National Assembly in accordance with its Standing Orders and submitted to the Parliamentary Legal Committee for scrutiny. PART 7 PROCEDURE IN PARLIAMENT 135 Head of Parliament (1) The Speaker is the head of Parliament but must exercise his or her functions as such subject to Standing Orders. (2) Subject to Standing Orders, the President of the Senate is the deputy head of Parliament and acts as head whenever the Speaker is for any reason unable to do so. Zimbabwe 2013 Page 57