POLICE ACT (as amended) recovered from such member shall be determined; (f) the appointment of boards of inquiry, the procedure of such boards and the attendance of witnesses thereat; (g) the appeals in terms of this Act; (h) the procedure before the Police Service Commission; (i) the provision, care, safe custody and maintenance of animals, vehicles, arms and accoutrements, dress, clothing and equipment of the Police Force; (j) the provision to and occupation by members of quarters, whether owned or rented by the State or placed at its disposal; (k) the conduct of disciplinary proceedings before boards of officers and single officers; (l) abandoned, lost or unclaimed property found or taken charge of or in the possession of a member; (m) the establishment, constitution, functions and procedure of the Zimbabwe Republic Police Association; (n) the secondment of members with their consent to employment outside the Police Force including the terms and conditions thereof. (2a) Regulations in terms of subsection (1) may provide penalties for contraventions thereof, but no such penalty shall exceed a fine of level five or imprisonment for a period of six months or both such fine and such imprisonment. in force immediately before that date shall be deemed to have been made by the Minister in terms of section seventy-two. (3) A person appointed as a member before the fixed date whose appointment was subsisting immediately before that date shall be deemed to have been appointed in terms of this Act. (4) Anything which was lawfully made, done or commenced before the fixed date by or on the authority of the Commission or the Commissioner and which, immediately before the fixed date, had or was capable of acquiring legal effect shall, on and after that date, continue to have or to be capable of acquiring, as the case may be, the same force and effect as if it had been made, done or commenced by or on the authority of the Police Service Commission, the Minister or the Commissioner, as the case may be, in terms of the appropriate provision of this Act. SCHEDULE (Sections 29 and 34) OFFENCES 1. Inciting, using or joining in any mutiny or sedition or conspiring with any person to incite or cause any mutiny or seditious conduct. 2. Being present at any mutiny or act of sedition and failing to use the utmost endeavour to suppress it or, knowing of any mutiny or sedition, failing to give information thereof to a superior without delay. 3. Abandoning or delivering up any station, post, camp or guard which it is his duty to defend, or voluntarily abandoning his arms. 4. By discharging any firearm or making any signal or by any means whatsoever, intentionally occasioning a false alarm or disturbance in any station, post, camp or quarters. 5. Making or spreading reports calculated to cause alarm or despondency. 6. (1) Deserting from the Police Force or refusing to serve therein or advising, persuading or assisting any other member to desert or refuse to serve, or knowingly receiving or entertaining any deserter, or, on discovery of a deserter, failing to give information thereof to a superior, or failing to arrest or take every means to cause such deserter to be apprehended. [Subsection inserted by s. 4 of Act 22/2001] (3) No regulations relating to pay, conditions of leave, payment of allowances, discipline, grievance procedures, conditions of housing and quarters or marriage for Regular Force members and provision for their dependants may not be made under this section unless they have been submitted to the Police Service Commission and the executive committee of the Zimbabwe Republic Police Association for examination and recommendation. 73 Transitional provisions and savings (1) In this section— “fixed date” means the 1st October, 1995. (2) Any regulations which were made or deemed to have been made by the Police Service Commission before the fixed date and which were [Chapter 11:10] 20 Reissue

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