Constitution of Zimbabwe (as amended by Constitution Amendment No. 19) (5) A Bill presented to the President for assent pursuant to a resolution of the House of Assembly referred to in subparagraph (2) shall be deemed to have been duly passed by Parliament in the form in which it is presented to the President. (6) In the calculation of any period of ninety days or one hundred and eighty days referred to in this paragraph, no account shall be taken of any period during which Parliament is prorogued. (7) For the purposes of this paragraph— (a) a Bill originating in the House of Assembly 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); (b) a Bill originating in the Senate shall be deemed to have been returned to the Senate on the sitting day next following the day on which the Bill is returned for the first time to the Senate in accordance with paragraph 2(6). Reports of Parliamentary Legal Committee on Bills 4. (1) The House of Assembly or the Senate, whichever is the House in which a Bill originates, shall not proceed upon the Bill, other than a Money Bill12, a Constitutional Bill or a Bill to which the proviso to paragraph 3(1) applies, after the introduction of the Bill into the House of Assembly or the Senate, as the case may be, or give such Bill its final reading after it has been amended in House of Assembly or the Senate, unless a report of the Parliamentary Legal Committee on the Bill has been presented to the House of Assembly or the Senate: Provided that, if no report has been presented within the period specified in Standing Orders or any extension thereof granted in accordance with Standing Orders, it shall be presumed that the Committee is of the opinion that no provisions of the Bill would, if enacted, be in contravention of the Declaration of Rights or any other provision of this Constitution, and the House of Assembly or the Senate, as the case may be, may proceed upon the Bill or give the Bill its final reading, as the case may be. (2) It shall be the duty of the House of Assembly or the Senate, as the case may be, to consider any report presented to it under section 40B(1) which states that, in the opinion of the Parliamentary Legal Committee, a provision of a Bill would, if enacted, be in contravention of the Declaration of Rights or any other provision of this Constitution. (3) If, after considering a report referred to in subparagraph (2), the House of Assembly or the Senate, as the case may be, resolves that a provision of the Bill 12 (sic). The reference to a Money Bill is mistaken and must be ignored; compare the new section 40B(1)(a) of the Constitution in section 10 of this Act, in terms of which the Parliamentary Legal Committee will examine Money Bills, just as it does at present. .Section 40B(1)(a) as originally proposed in the Bill for this Act did refer to Money Bills (and would have removed Money Bills from the jurisdiction of the Parliamentary Legal Committee), but the reference was deleted by a Committee Stage amendment. There should have been a corresponding consequential deletion in the subparagraph to which this footnote relates. - 118 -