Schs. 4–6 CONSTITUTION OF ZIMBABWE Rights or any other provision of this Constitution, Parliament shall not pass the Bill containing that provision. Report of Parliamentary Legal Committee on statutory instruments (1) If, after considering a report of the Parliamentary Legal Committee that a provision of a statutory instrument is in contravention of the Declaration of Rights or any other provision of this Constitution, Parliament resolves that the provision is in contravention of the Declaration of Rights or any other provision of this Constitution, the Secretary to Parliament shall report the circumstances to the President who shall forthwith, by notice in the Gazette, repeal the provision. (2) The Parliamentary Legal Committee may, at any time before a report of the Committee that a provision of a statutory instrument is in contravention of the Declaration of Rights or any other provision of this Constitution is considered by Parliament, withdraw the report if, in the opinion of the Committee, the provision is repealed or is amended in such a way as, in the opinion of the Committee, to remove the contravention. (3) A provision of a statutory instrument which has been repealed by the President in terms of subparagraph (1) shall cease to be of force with effect from the date of such repeal notwithstanding that some person or authority other than the President may have made the statutory instrument concerned. or any law in force at a later date that is not less favourable to the person entitled to such pensions benefits. 3 [Subparagraph as amended by section 4 of Act 9 of 1993] [Schedule as substituted by section 25 of Act 31 of 1989] SCHEDULE 5 (Section 52) [Schedule repealed by section 8 of Act 15 of 1990] SCHEDULE 6 (Section 112) PENSIONS 1 Protection of pension rights of public officers (1) Subject to the provisions of paragraph 2, the law to be applied with respect to any pensions benefits that were granted to any person before the appointed day shall be the law that was in force at the date on which those benefits were granted or any law in force at a later date that is not less favourable to that person. (3) Where a person is entitled to exercise an option as to which of two or more laws shall apply in his case, the law for which he opts shall, for the purposes of this paragraph, be deemed to be more favourable to him than the other law or laws. [Subparagraph as amended by section 4 of Act 9 of 1993] (2) Subject to the provisions of paragraph 2, the law to be applied with respect to any pensions benefits not referred to in subparagraph (1) in relation to a public officer or former public officer in respect of a period of service as a public officer, or any illhealth or injury arising out of and in the course of his official duties during a period of service as a public officer, that— (a) commenced before the appointed day shall be the law that was in force immediately before that day; or (b) commenced on or after the appointed day shall be the law in force on the date on which that period of service commenced; 82