INTERPRETATION ACT [Chapter 1:01] (as amended 1st March 2005) (2) Any power conferred by an enactment to make a statutory instrument may be exercised— (a) either in relation to all cases to which the power extends, or in relation to all those cases subject to specified exceptions, or in relation to any specified cases or classes of case; and (b) so as to make, as respects the cases in relation to which it is exercised— (3) Any amendment or replacement of a standard publication, whether before or after the coming into operation of the statutory instrument incorporating a reference to that standard publication, shall be of force for the purposes of that statutory instrument as if incorporated therein in terms of subsection (2). (4) While any statutory instrument in which reference is made to a standard publication is in force, copies of— (a) the standard publication or any replacement thereof; and (i) the full provision to which the power extends, or any less provision, whether by way of exception or otherwise; and (ii) the same provision for all cases in relation to which the power is exercised, or a different provision for different cases or classes of case, or a different provision as respects the same case or class of case for different purposes of the enactment; and (iii) any such provision either unconditional or subject to any specified condition. (b) any other standard publication or other specification or document incorporated by reference in the first-mentioned standard publication; and (c) any amendment of the standard publication, specifications or documents; shall be kept at such offices in Zimbabwe as may be specified in the statutory instrument, where they may be inspected free of charge: Provided that failure to comply with this subsection shall not affect the validity of the statutory instrument. 22 References in statutory instruments to standard publications 23 Application of this Act in relation to model by-laws or regulations (1) In this section— “standard publication” means any— (a) publication embodying a standard or code of practice laid down by the Standards Association of Zimbabwe, the South African Bureau of Standards or the British Standards Institution; or (b) any other publication specified by the President by notice in the Gazette for the purposes of this definition. (2) When an enactment confers the power to make a statutory instrument the power shall be construed as authorizing the making of a statutory instrument prescribing requirements merely by reference to a standard publication. (1) Where an enactment confers the power to make model by-laws or regulations, this Act shall apply in respect of— (a) the power as if it were a power to make a statutory instrument; and (b) model by-laws or regulations made in terms of the power as if they were statutory instruments. (2) Subsection (1) shall apply in respect of a power to make model by-laws or regulations, or any by-laws or regulations made in terms of such a power, whether that power or those regulations or by-laws, as the case may be, existed before the 15th August, 1975, or come into existence on or after that date. - 12 -