(b) section seven, which deals with the supremacy of this Constitution;
(c) any provision of Chapter II, dealing with fundamental constitutional principles and
national objectives;
(d) any provision of Chapter 111, dealing with fundamental human rights and freedoms
and their enforcement;
(e) sections eighty-one and eighty-four, which deal with the tenure of office of the
President;
(f) section one hundred and three, which deals with the legislative authority of
Zimbabwe;
(g) this section;
(h) section one hundred and fifty-four, which deals with the judicial authority of
Zimbabwe;
(i) section one hundred and fifty-six, which deals with the independence of the judiciary;
(j) section two hundred and fifty-six, which deals with the independence of Commissions
established by this Constitution;
must not be presented to the President for assent unless(i) it has been passed by Parliament in accordance with subsection (4); and
(ii) every amendment that it will make to any of those provisions has been
approved by a majority of persons voting at a referendum.
(6) All registered voters are entitled to vote at a referendum referred to in subsection (5).
(7) When a Constitutional Bill is presented to the President for assent it must be
accompanied by–
(a) certificates from the President of the Senate and the Speaker stating the number of
affirmative votes the Bill received at the final vote on it in the Senate or the National
Assembly, as the case may be; and
(b) in the case of a Constitutional Bill to which subsection (5) applies, a certificate from
the chairperson of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission stating that the amendments
that will be made by the Bill have been approved by a majority of persons voting at a
referendum.
(8) An Act of Parliament that provides for the revision of the statute law may permit–
(a) the renumbering of the provisions of this Constitution to reflect amendments that have
been made to them; and
(b) the amendment of references in this Constitution to provisions that have been
renumbered;
and any such amendment is valid as if it had been made by an Act of Parliament passed in
accordance with this section.
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