CONSTITUTION OF ZIMBABWE as amended at 14th September, 2005 ders, 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 Parliament may proceed upon the Bill or give the Bill its final reading, as the case may be. (2) It shall be the duty of Parliament 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), Parliament resolves that a provision of the Bill would, if enacted, be in contravention of the Declaration of Rights or any other provision of this Constitution, Parliament shall not pass the Bill containing that provision. 3 Report of Parliamentary Legal Committee on statutory instruments (1) If, after considering a report of the Parliamentary Legal Committee that a provision of a statutory instrument is in contravention of the Declaration of Rights or any other provision of this Constitution, Parliament resolves that the provision is in contravention of the Declaration of Rights or any other provision of this Constitution, the Clerk of Parliament shall report the circumstances to the President who shall forthwith, by notice in the Gazette, repeal the provision. [Subparagraph as amended by section 15 of Act 14 of 1996 - Amendment No. 14] (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 this Constitution is considered by Parliament, withdraw the report if, in the opinion of the Committee, the provision is repealed or is amended in such a way as, in the opinion of the Committee, to remove the contravention. (3) A provision of a statutory instrument which has been repealed by the President in terms of subparagraph (1) shall cease to be of force with effect from the date of such repeal notwithstanding that some person or authority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 [Schedule as substituted by section 25 of Act 31 of 1989 - Amendment No. 9] SCHEDULE 5 (Section 52) [Schedule repealed by section 8 of Act 15 of 1990 - Amendment No. 10] Reissue 98 14th September, 2005