CONSTITUTION OF ZIMBABWE as amended by Amendment No. 17 duction of the Bill into the Senate, the Bill may, subject to the provisions of this paragraph, be presented to the President for assent in the form in which it was passed by the House of Assembly. (5) A Bill referred to in subparagraph (4) shall not be presented to the President for assent unless a resolution that the Bill be presented to the President for assent has been passed by the House of Assembly after the expiration of a period of eight sitting days beginning on the day of the introduction of the Bill into the Senate. (6) A Bill referred to in subparagraph (4) shall not be presented to the President for assent unless it is accompanied by a certificate from the Speaker stating that the Bill is a Bill to which the provisions of subparagraphs (4) and (5) apply and that the Bill may lawfully be presented for assent by virtue of those provisions. (7) A Bill presented to the President for assent pursuant to a resolution of the House of Assembly referred to in subparagraph (5) shall be deemed to have been duly passed by Parliament in the form in which it is presented to the President. (8) For the purposes of this paragraph, a Bill referred to in subparagraph (1) shall be deemed to have been introduced into the Senate on the sitting day next following the day on which a copy of the Bill is transmitted to the Senate in accordance with paragraph 2(1). (9) In this Constitution, “Money Bill” means a public Bill which contains only provisions dealing with all or any of the following matters— (a) the imposition, repeal, remission, alteration, administration or regulation of taxation or any exemption therefrom; (b) the imposition, for the payment of debt or other financial purposes, including expenses of administration, of charges on the Consolidated Revenue Fund or any other public funds or on moneys provided by Parliament or the variation or repeal of any such charges; (c) the grant of moneys for the services of the Government, including expenses of administration, or the grant of money to any authority or person or the variation or revocation of any such grant; (d) the appropriation, receipt, custody, investment, issue or audit of accounts of public money; (e) the making or raising of any loan by the Government or the repayment thereof or the establishment, alteration, administration or abolition of any sinking fund provided in connection with any such loan; (f) the guarantee given by or on behalf of the Government in respect of any loan raised by any person and any conditions which are attached to such guarantee; (g) the compounding or remitting of any debt and the condoning of any failure to collect taxes; (h) the condoning of unauthorized expenditure; (i) subordinate matters which are ancillary or incidental to any of the foregoing matters; and any reference in this subparagraph to taxation, public funds, public money, debt, taxes or expenditure shall not be construed as including a reference to any taxation Consolidation 108 14th September, 2005

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