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FLAG OF ZIMBABWE ACT AND REGULATIONS
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FLAG OF ZIMBABWE ACT
Ord. 16/1980; Act 22/1985, 22/2001 (s. 4).
AN ACT to provide for the design of the Flag of Zimbabwe and for matters connected with
or incidental to the foregoing.
1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the Flag of Zimbabwe Act [Chapter 10:10].
2 Interpretation
In this Act—
“Flag” means the Flag of Zimbabwe referred to in section three;
“Minister” means the Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs or any other Minister to
whom the President may, from time to time, assign the administration of this Act.
3 Design of Flag of Zimbabwe
The Flag of Zimbabwe shall be as depicted and described in the Schedule. 1
4 Deposit of Flag in National Archives
The Minister shall cause a copy of the Flag to be prepared and deposited in the National Archives
established in terms of the National Archives of Zimbabwe Act [Chapter 25:06].
5 Regulations2
(1) The President may make such regulations as he considers necessary or convenient for the purpose
of protecting the Flag from any use or application which, in his opinion, is improper.
(2) Regulations made in terms of subsection (1) may provide for the regulation, control, restriction or
prohibition of—
(a) the importation, manufacture, sale, loan, use, possession, wearing or display of the Flag or any
reproduction or likeness thereof;
(b) the application to, or use on, any matter or thing whatsoever of the Flag or any reproduction or
likeness thereof.
(3) Regulations made in terms of subsection (1) may provide penalties for any contravention thereof,
including the forfeiture of any matter or thing in respect of which or in connection with which the
contravention occurred:
Provided that no such penalty, excluding such forfeiture, shall exceed a fine of level six or
imprisonment for a period of six months or both such fine and such imprisonment.
6 Protection of Flag
Any person who burns, mutilates or otherwise insults the Flag or a flag which resembles or is intended
to resemble the Flag or any reproduction thereof, in circumstances which are calculated or likely to show
disrespect for the Flag or to bring the Flag into disrepute, shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine
not exceeding level six or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year or to both such fine and
such imprisonment.
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The illustration has been omitted from this document.
Regulations were made in 1987. See next page.