CONSTITUTION OF ZIMBABWE SCHEDULE 4 (Sections 40B and 51) PROCEDURE WITH REGARD TO BILLS AND OTHER MATTERS IN PARLIAMENT 1 Introduction of Bills, motions and petitions (1) Subject to the provisions of this Constitution and Standing Orders— (a) any member of Parliament may introduce any Bill into or move any motion for debate in or present any petition to Parliament; (b) a Vice-President, Minister or Deputy Minister may introduce any Bill into or move any motion for debate in or present any petition to Parliament. (2) Except on the recommendation of a VicePresident, Minister or Deputy Minister, Parliament shall not— (a) proceed upon any Bill, including any amendment to a Bill, which, in the opinion of the Speaker, makes provision for any of the following matters— (i) imposing or increasing any tax; (ii) imposing or increasing any charge on the Consolidated Revenue Fund or other public funds of the State or varying any such charge otherwise than by reducing it; (iii) compounding or remitting any debt due to the State or condoning any failure to collect taxes; (iv) authorizing the making or raising of any loan by the State; (v) condoning unauthorized expenditure; (b) proceed upon any motion, including any amendment to a motion, the effect of which, in the opinion of the Speaker, is that provision should be made for any of the matters specified in subparagraph (a); or (c) receive any petition which, in the opinion of the Speaker, requests that provision be made for any of the matters specified in subparagraph (a). (3) The provisions of subparagraph (2) shall not apply to any Bill introduced, motion or amendment moved or petition presented by a Vice-President, Minister or Deputy Minister. (2) It shall be the duty of Parliament to consider any report presented to it under section 40B(1) which states that, in the opinion of the Parliamentary Legal Committee, a provision of a Bill would, if enacted, be in contravention of the Declaration of Rights or any other provision of this Constitution. [Paragraph as amended by section 9 of Act 15 of 1990] 2 Reports of Parliamentary Legal Committee on Bills (1) Parliament shall not proceed upon a Bill, other than a Constitutional Bill, after the introduction of the Bill into Parliament or give such Bill its final reading after it has been amended in Parliament unless a report of the Parliamentary Legal Committee on the Bill has been presented to Parliament: Provided that, if no report has been presented within the period specified in Standing Orders or any extension thereof granted in accordance with Standing Orders, it shall be presumed that the Committee is of the opinion that no provisions of the Bill would, if enacted, be in contravention of the Declaration of Rights or any other provision of this Constitution, and Parliament may proceed upon the Bill or give the Bill its final reading, as the case may be. (3) If, after considering a report referred to in subparagraph (2), Parliament resolves that a provision of the Bill would, if enacted, be in contravention of the Declaration of 81 Schs. 3–4