constituteproject.org PDF generated: 26 Sep 2013, 21:49 "metropolitan council" means a council established by section 269 for a metropolitan province; "metropolitan province" means Bulawayo Metropolitan Province or Harare Metropolitan Province, as the case may be; • "Minister" includes a person exercising the functions of a Minister, whatever their title; • "national legislation" means an Act of Parliament or a statutory instrument made under an Act of Parliament; • "oath" includes affirmation; • "offence" means a criminal offence; • "period of public emergency" means a period when a declaration of a state of public emergency under section 113 is in effect; • "person" means an individual or a body of persons, whether incorporated or unincorporated; • "President" means the President of Zimbabwe; • "President of the Senate" means the President of the Senate elected in terms of section 122; • "provincial council" means a council established by section 268 for a province other than a metropolitan province; • "public office" means a paid office in the service of the State; • "public officer" means a person holding or acting in a public office; • "security service" means a security service referred to in section 207; • "Senator Chief" means a chief elected to the Senate in terms of section 120(1)(b) or (c); • "sitting" means a period during which the Senate or the National Assembly is sitting continuously, including any period during which the Senate or the National Assembly, as the case may be, is in committee; • "sitting day" means any weekday which is prescribed in the Standing Orders of the National Assembly or the Senate, as the case may be, to be a sitting day, whether or not the House concerned meets on that day; • "Speaker" means the Speaker of the National Assembly elected in terms of section 126; • "Standing Orders", in relation to anything to be done by-(a) the Senate, means Standing Orders of the Senate; (b) the National Assembly, means Standing Orders of the National Assembly; (c) the Senate and the National Assembly jointly, means joint Standing Orders; • made in terms of section 139; • "statutory body" means-(a) a Commission established by this Constitution; or (b) a body corporate established directly by or under an Act of Parliament for special purposes specified in that Act, whose membership consists wholly or mainly of persons appointed by the President, a Vice-President, a Minister, a Deputy Minister, another statutory body or by a Commission established by this Constitution; • "statutory instrument" means any instrument that has the force of law and that is made by the President, a Vice-President, a Minister or any other person or authority under this Constitution or an Act of Parliament; • "tax" includes a duty, rate, levy or due; • "traditional leader" means a person appointed as such in terms of section 283; • "Zimbabwe" means the Republic of Zimbabwe; • "Zimbabwe Electoral Commission" means the Commission of that name established by section 238; • "Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission" means the Commission of that name established by section 242. • • Zimbabwe 2013 Page 142