CONSTITUTION OF ZIMBABWE (c) upon the assumption of office of a new President. resign his office as a member of the Cabinet. [Subsection as amended by section 9 of Act 15 of 1990] (2) No person shall hold office as Vice-President, Minister or Deputy Minister for longer than three months unless he is a member of Parliament: Provided that if during that period Parliament is dissolved, he may continue to hold such office without being a member of Parliament until Parliament first meets after the dissolution. [Subsection as substituted by section 2 of Act 31 of 1989] (3) A person who has held office as VicePresident, Minster or Deputy Minister without also being a member of Parliament shall not be eligible for reappointment to that office before Parliament is next dissolved unless in the meantime he has become a member of Parliament. [Subsection as substituted by section 2 of Act 31 of 1989] 31F Vote of no confidence in Government (1) Parliament may, by resolution supported by the votes of not less than two-thirds of all its members, pass a vote of no confidence in the Government. [Subsection as substituted by section 3 of Act 31 of 1989] (2) A motion for the resolution referred to in subsection (1) shall not be moved in Parliament unless— (a) not less than seven days’ notice of the motion has been given to the Speaker; and (b) the notice of the motion has been signed by not less than one-third of all the members of Parliament; and shall be debated in Parliament within twenty-one days after the receipt by the Speaker of the notice of the motion. [Subsection as amended by section 26 of Act 31 of 1989] (3) Where a vote of no confidence in the Government is passed by Parliament in terms of this section, the President shall within fourteen days do one of the following— (a) dissolve Parliament; or (b) remove every Vice-President, Minister and Deputy Minister from his office unless he has earlier resigned in consequence of the resolution; or (c) himself resign his office. (3) Every Minister who becomes a member of the Cabinet shall, before entering upon his office, take and subscribe before the President or some other person authorised by the President in that behalf, the oath of a member of the Cabinet in the form set out in Schedule 1. [Subsection as amended by section 26 of Act 31 of 1989 and by section 9 of Act 15 of 1990] 31G Cabinet (1) There shall be a Cabinet consisting, subject to the provisions of section 76 (3b), of the President, the Vice-President or Vice-Presidents, as the case may be, and such Ministers as the President may from time to time appoint. [Subsection as amended by section 4 of Act 4 of 1989 and by section 9 of Act 15 of 1990] (2) A Minister who is a member of the Cabinet shall hold office as a member of the Cabinet during the pleasure of the President: Provided that— (i) he shall cease to hold office as a member of the Cabinet if he ceases to be a Minister; (ii) he may at any time, by notice in writing addressed and delivered to the President, [Subsection as amended by section 4 of Act 4 of 1989] 33 ss 31C–31G