CR!M INALPI~XT'DURF A1'>l) EvuJHNC'L :\~r ENDM ENT
2016
Dates of commencement [Act, section 1(2) and (3)]
•
10th June 2016 [date Act was gazetted] – all provisions
except those listed in the following paragraph.
•
8th September 2016 [ninetieth day after Act was gazetted]
– sections 16, 17, 20, 22, 23, 25 and 27, and the new Eleventh
Schedule to the principal Act inserted by section 47.
ZIMBABWE
ACT
To amend the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act [Chapter 9:07]; to
amend the National Prosecuting Authority Act [Chapter 7:20] (No. 5
of 2014); and to provide for matters connected therewith or incidental
thereto.
ENACTED by the Parliament and the President of Zimbabwe.
1
Short title and date of commencement
( 1) Tllis Act may be cited as the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Amendment
Act, 2016.
(2) Subject to subsection (3), this Act shall come into operation on the date of
its promulgation.
(3) Sections 16, 17, 20, 22, 23, 25, 27 and -+7 (insofar as the insertion of the
Eleventh Schedule is concerned) shall come into operation on the ninetieth day after
the date of the promulgation of this Act.
2
Amendment of section 2 of Cap. 9:07
Sl-ction2 ("'nterpretation") of the Crinlinal Procedure and Evidence Act [Chapter Y:OlJ
(hereinafter called "the principal Act") is amended(a)
by the insertion of the following definitions"" accused" or "accused person" means a person who has been arrested
for or charged with an offence;
"authorised person", for the purposes of taking an intimate sample or
bm:cal sample pursuant to section 41(3) or 41B, means a health
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