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Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission Act
No. 2/2012
(3) The Working Groups established in terms of subsection (1) shall be based on human rights
thematic areas including—
(a) Children’s Rights;
(b) Gender Equality and Women’s Rights;
(c) Civil and Political Rights;
(d) Economic Social and Cultural Rights; and
(e) any other thematic area which the Commission may consider necessary.
(4) Meetings of a Working Group may be convened at any time and at any place by the
chairperson of the Working Group.
(5) If the chairperson of a Working Group is absent from any meeting of the Working Group,
the members present may elect one of their number to preside at that meeting as chairperson.
(6) A majority of members of a Working Group shall form a quorum at any meeting of the
Working Group.
(7) Anything authorised or required to be done by a Working Group may be decided by a
majority vote at a meeting of the Working Group at which a quorum is present.
(8) At all meetings of a Working Group each member present shall have one vote on each
question before the Working Group:
Provided that in the event of an equality of votes the chairperson or person presiding at the
meeting shall have a casting vote in addition to his or her deliberative vote.
(9) Subject to this paragraph, the procedure to be followed at any meeting of a Working Group
shall be as fixed by the Commission.
Minutes of proceedings
8.(1) The Commission shall cause minutes to be taken at its meetings and the meetings of
its Working Groups and enter them in books kept for the purpose.
(2) Any minutes which purport to be signed by the person presiding at the meeting to which
the minutes relate or by the person presiding at the next following meeting of the Commission
or the Working Group concerned, as the case may be, shall be accepted for all purposes as
prima facie evidence of the proceedings and decisions taken at the meeting concerned.
(3) The Commission and any Working Group of the Commission shall cause copies of all
minutes that have been signed to be sent to the Minister for his or her information.
Validity of decisions and acts of Commission and Working Groups
9.(1) No decision or act of the Commission and any Working Group or act done under their
authority shall be invalid solely because—
(a) the Commission or Working Group consisted of less than the number of persons for
which provision is made in paragraphs 6 and 7; or
(b) a disqualified person acted as a Commissioner or member of a Working Group at the
time the decision was taken or the act was done or authorised;
if the decision was taken or the act was done or authorised by a majority vote of the persons
who at the time were entitled to act as Commissioners or members of a Working Group.
(2) The decisions of the Commission shall be enforced by the High Court.
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