Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Act updated May 2011
negligence and fraud, the Board shall not be in any way responsible for any loss, costs, damages
or inconvenience that may result from the exercise or non-exercise thereof.
8.3 The Board shall be entitled to raise money on behalf of the Unit Trust Account,
provided that such power shall only be exercised if the Board is satisfied that the borrowing will
not prejudice unit holders.
8.4 The Board may contract or enter into any financial, banking or other transaction with
the managers or any unit holder or any company or body whose shares or securities form part of
the deposited property or may be interested in any such contract or transaction.
8.5 The Board shall not be required to make any payment to the unit holders except out of
the deposited property held by it for that purpose in terms of this Schedule.
8.6 The Board shall not be liable to account to any unit holder or otherwise for any
payment made or suffered by the Board in good faith to any duly empowered fiscal authority of
Zimbabwe or elsewhere for taxes or other charges in any way arising out of or relating to any
transaction under this Schedule, notwithstanding that any such payment is not due or need not
have been done.
8.7 The Board may act and shall not be liable for anything done or omitted or suffered by it
upon the advice and statements of or information obtained from legal practitioners (whether
consulted by the Board, the chief executive officer or any manager), bankers, accountants,
brokers or other persons believed by the Board in good faith to be experts in relation to the
matters upon which they are consulted.
8.8 Subject as herein provided, the Board shall be entitled, for the purpose of indemnity
against any actions, costs, claims, damages, expenses or demands to which it may be put as the
Board, to have recourse to the deposited property or any part thereof.
8.9 The Board may limit the maximum number of units that the individual unit holders may
buy in the Unit Trust Account at any given time and may alter this number from time to time as
the need may arise.
PART 4
THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER AND MANAGERS
Powers of managers
9. The managers shall be a company or a consortium of companies, appointed by the
Board, who are responsible to the unit holders for the management and control of the Unit Trust
Account and for the issue and redemption of units of the scheme.
Subject to this Schedule the managers, in their own name and in the name of the Unit Trust
Account, shall have power to do all such things and enter into all such arrangements as are
necessary to achieve the provisions, intentions and objects of the Unit Trust Account in such
manner as in the opinion of their proper officers may be most advantageous to the unit holders
and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, shall have the following powers :
9.1 To purchase movable and immovable property and provide services and carry on
business of any kind in such manner as the managers could do if they were the
beneficial owner thereof;
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