CONSTITUTION OF ZIMBABWE as amended at 14th September,2005
(2) A motion for the resolution referred to in subsection (1) shall not be moved
in Parliament unless—
(a) not less than seven days’ notice of the motion has been given to the Speaker; and
(b) the notice of the motion has been signed by not less than one-third of all
the members of Parliament;
and shall be debated in Parliament within twenty-one days after the receipt by the
Speaker of the notice of the motion.
(3) Where a vote of no confidence in the Government is passed by Parliament in
terms of this section, the President shall within fourteen days do one of the following—
(a) dissolve Parliament; or
(b) remove every Vice-President, Minister and Deputy Minister from his office
unless he has earlier resigned in consequence of the resolution; or
(c) himself resign his office.
[Section as amended by sections 3 and 26 of Act 31 of 1989 - Amendment No. 9,
and subsection (3) as also amended by section 9 of Act 15 of 1990 - Amendment No. 10]
31G
Cabinet
(1) There shall be a Cabinet consisting, subject to the provisions of section
76(3b), of the President, the Vice-President or Vice-Presidents, as the case may be,
and such Ministers as the President may from time to time appoint.
[Subsection as amended by section 4 of Act 4 of 1989 - Amendment No. 8
and by section 9 of Act 15 of 1990 - Amendment No. 10]
(2) A Minister who is a member of the Cabinet shall hold office as a member of
the Cabinet during the pleasure of the President:
Provided that—
(i) he shall cease to hold office as a member of the Cabinet if he ceases to be a
Minister;
(ii) he may at any time, by notice in writing addressed and delivered to the
President, resign his office as a member of the Cabinet.
(3) Every Minister who becomes a member of the Cabinet shall, before entering
upon his office, take and subscribe before the President or some other person authorised by the President in that behalf, the oath of a member of the Cabinet in the form
set out in Schedule 1.
[Subsection as amended by section 4 of Act 4 of 1989 - Amendment No. 8]
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