Judgment No. CCZ 10/2018 Const. Application No. CCZ 80/2016 Parliamentary Legal Committee on the initial text of the Bill. The new text is the basis upon which the Parliamentary Legal Committee issued a Non Adverse Report on the Bill.” What emerges reasonably clearly from the foregoing is that what was presented to the National Assembly on 28 June 2016 was a consolidated and amended text of the original version of the Bill. Contrary to the submissions of the applicants, there was no new second Bill involved in this process. It follows that there was no need for Parliament to gazette the amended text of the Bill fourteen days before it was presented, as would have been required by Standing Order 134 had it involved the introduction of an entirely new Bill. The first ground of challenge to the passage of the Bill must accordingly fail. Whether Bill Duly Considered by Parliamentary Legal Committee As I have already stated, s 152(3)(a) of the Constitution requires the PLC to examine every Bill before it receives its final vote in the Senate or the National Assembly. The PLC must then report to Parliament whether it considers that any provision in the Bill contravenes or, if enacted, would contravene any provision of the Constitution. In terms of Standing Order 32, any report of the PLC must be based on the “collective knowledge” of all of its members. It is argued for the applicants that the non-adverse report on the Bill was furnished by only three members of the PLC at its final meeting to consider the Bill. All five members of the PLC were not consulted to submit their opinions on the consolidated DISTRIBUTED BY VERITAS e-mail: veritas@mango.zw; website: www.veritaszim.net Veritas makes every effort to ensure the provision of reliable information, but cannot take legal responsibility for information supplied. 16