ELECTORAL ACT (as amended at 24th January 2008) or, subject to subsection (2), any person who— (a) is a member of Parliament, a Provincial Governor, the principal diplomatic representative of Zimbabwe in any country or the deputy of such representative, or a member of the staff of such representative appointed by him or her, or the trade commissioner or any consular official for Zimbabwe in any country; or (b) inside Zimbabwe, holds the position of a hospital matron, Government mining engineer, Government inspector of mines, mine manager, constituency registrar, deputy constituency registrar, assistant constituency registrar, or chairperson or secretary of a town council or rural district council; or (c) inside or outside Zimbabwe, is or holds the office of or an appointment as a chartered accountant, corporate member of an engineering institute, land surveyor, corporate member of an institute or association of architects, postmaster, legal practitioner, advocate, barrister, attorney, solicitor, magistrate, bank manager, commissioned officer in the Defence Forces, justice of the peace, commissioner of oaths, mayor, medical practitioner, town clerk, assistant town clerk, veterinary surgeon or commissioned police officer; or (d) is a member of a class of persons prescribed as competent witnesses; “constituency” means— (a) in relation to a House of Assembly constituency, one of the constituencies delimited in accordance with section 61A(4) of the Constitution; (b) in relation to a senatorial constituency, one of the constituencies determined in accordance with section 61A(7) of the Constitution; (c) in relation to a ward, one of the constituencies determined in accordance with section 61A(2) of the Constitution; and the terms “House of Assembly constituency” and “senatorial constituency” shall be construed accordingly; “constituency centre” means any place within a constituency notified by a constituency elections officer in terms of subsection (1) of section sixty-five as a place where the collating of votes from the polling stations in that constituency will take place in accordance with Part XIII; “constituency elections officer” means a person who is appointed to be a constituency elections officer in terms of section 17(1) and includes (unless the context otherwise requires) a senatorial constituency elections officer designated or appointed as such in terms of section 17(3); “constituency registrar” means a person who is appointed in terms of subsection (1) of section nineteen to be a constituency registrar; “constituency return” means a return in the prescribed form recording the result of a collation of the votes for a Presidential election at a constituency centre in terms of the Second Schedule; “corrupt practice” means any of the following offences referred to in Part XIX, namely— (a) undue influence; - 11 -