Constitution of Zimbabwe (as amended by Constitution Amendment No. 19) that the provision is in contravention of the Declaration of Rights or any other provision of this Constitution; and (b) within twenty-one sitting days after the passing of the resolution of the Senate referred to in subparagraph (a)— (i) the House of Assembly has not resolved that the provision shall not be repealed; or (ii) the Committee has not reported to the Clerk of Parliament that the provision has been repealed or amended in such a way as, in the opinion of the Committee, to remove the contravention; the Clerk of Parliament shall report the circumstances to the President who shall forthwith, by notice in the Gazette, repeal the provision. (2) The Parliamentary Legal Committee may, at any time before a report of the Committee that a provision of a statutory instrument is in contravention of the Declaration of Rights or any other provision of the Constitution is considered by the Senate, withdraw the report if, in the opinion of the Committee, the provision is repealed or is amended in such a way as, in the opinion of the Committee, to remove the contravention. (3) A provision of a statutory instrument which has been repealed by the President in terms of subparagraph (1) shall cease to be of force with effect from the date of such repeal notwithstanding that some person or authority other than the President may have made the statutory instrument concerned. [Schedule as substituted by section 21 of Act –5 of 2005 – Amendment No. 17] SCHEDULE 5 (Section 52) PROVISIONS REFERRED TO IN SECTION 52(4)(a) (ENTRENCHED PROVISIONS] [Schedule repealed by section 8 of Act 15 of 1990 – Amendment No. 10] SCHEDULE 6 (Section 112) PENSIONS Protection of pension rights of public officers 1. (1) Subject to the provisions of paragraph 2, the law to be applied with respect to any pensions benefits that were granted to any person before the appointed day shall be the law that was in force at the date on which those benefits were granted or any law in force at a later date that is not less favourable to that person. [Subparagraph as amended by section 4 of Act 9 of 1993 – Amendment No. 13] (2) Subject to the provisions of paragraph 2, the law to be applied with respect to any pensions benefits not referred to in subparagraph (1) in relation to a public officer or former public officer in respect of a period of service as a public officer, - 123 -