Constitution of Zimbabwe (as amended by Constitution Amendment No. 19) Governors, being not less than three, as the Committee on Standing Rules and Orders may from time to time determine, the majority of whom shall be legally qualified as provided in subsection (3). [Subsection as amended by section 9 of Act 15 of 1990 – Amendment No. 10 – and by section 23 of Act 5 of 2005 – Amendment No. 17] (3) A person shall be legally qualified for the purposes of subsection (2) if he— (a) has been a judge of the Supreme Court or the High Court; or (b) is and has been for not less than five years, whether continuously or not, qualified to practise as a legal practitioner in Zimbabwe; or (c) has been a magistrate in Zimbabwe for not less than five years; or (d) possesses such legal qualifications and has such legal experience as the Committee on Standing Rules and Orders considers suitable and adequate for his appointment to the Parliamentary Legal Committee. (4) In computing, for the purposes of subsection (3)(b), the period during which any person has been qualified to practise as a legal practitioner, any period during which he was qualified to practise as an advocate or attorney in Zimbabwe shall be included. [Section as inserted by section 8 of Act 31 of 1989 – Amendment No. 9] 40B Functions of Parliamentary Legal Committee (1) The Parliamentary Legal Committee shall examine— (a) every Bill, other than a Constitutional Bill or a Bill to which the proviso to paragraph 3(1) of Schedule 4 applies, that has been introduced into the House of Assembly or the Senate, whichever is the House in which the Bill originates; and (b) every Bill, other than a Constitutional Bill, or a Bill to which the proviso to paragraph 3(1) of Schedule 4 applies, which is amended after its examination by the Committee, before the Bill is given its final reading in the House in which it originated; and (c) every draft Bill transmitted by a Minister to the Clerk of Parliament for reference to the Committee; and (d) every statutory instrument published in the Gazette; and (e) every draft statutory instrument transmitted by the authority empowered to make it to the Clerk of Parliament for reference to the Committee; and shall report to the House of Assembly, Senate, Minister or authority, as the case may be, whether in its opinion any provision of the Bill, draft Bill, statutory instrument or draft statutory instrument would, if enacted, be or, as the case may be, is in contravention of the Declaration of Rights or any other provision of the Constitution. (2) Members of the Parliamentary Legal Committee who are not members of the House in which a Bill originates shall, if the Committee reports to the House that any provision of the Bill would, if enacted, be in contravention of the - 54 -