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BILL WATCH 23 2019 Update on Bills and Government Gazettes 5 to 19 April 2019
(BILL WATCH, 2019-04)This Bill was gazetted in the Government Gazette dated 19th April [released to the public on 17th April ahead of the public holidays on 18th and 19th April]. -
BILL WATCH 30 2019 Tripartite Negotiating Forum Act Gazetted and Coming up in Parliament This Week
(2019-06)The Tripartite Negotiating Forum Act, 2019 (Act No. 3 of 2019) was gazetted and came into force on Tuesday 4th June [Government Gazette Extraordinary dated 4th June 2019]. -
BILL WATCH 31 2019 Progress on Bills
(2019)Both the National Assembly and the Senate sat last week and this week. Two Bills were passed and progress made on two others. -
BILL WATCH 32 2019 Only RTGS Dollars are Legal Tender
(BILL WATCH, 2019-06)This morning an important statutory instrument was published in a Government Gazette Extraordinary: the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (Legal Tender) Regulations, 2019 (SI 142 of 2019). The instrument can be viewed on the Veritas ... -
BILL WATCH 33 2019 Monetary Policy and the Rule of Law
(2019-07)SI 142 of 2019 [link] ‒ the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (Legal Tender) Regulations, 2019, to give it its full name ‒ declared that the Zimbabwe dollar should be the sole legal tender in Zimbabwe for all transactions. -
BILL WATCH 37 2019 In Parliament 16 18 July and Coming up 23 25 July
(2019-07)The Marriages Bill, 2019 [H.B. 7, 2019] was gazetted on Friday 19th July. The Bill can be downloaded from the Veritas website [link]. For our analysis of the Bill see Bill Watch 36/2019 of 22nd July -
BILL WATCH 38 2019 Parliament Invites Public Comments on Three Bills
(BILL WATCH, 2019-06)arliament has in separate public notices dated 23rd July invited the public to make comments on the above-mentioned Bills. In each case the deadline for receipt of written submissions is Friday next week, 2nd August. -
BILL WATCH 39 2019 PLC Report on MOPO Bill
(BILL WATCH, 2019-07)On the 24th July the Deputy Speaker of Parliament announced that the Parliamentary Legal Committee had issued an adverse report on the Maintenance of Peace and Order Bill, meaning that the Committee had found some provisions ... -
BILL WATCH 41 2019 Supplementary Budget Due on 1st August; plus Parlliamentary Roundup
(2019-07)Both the Senate and the National Assembly will continue sitting this week, the third week of the current series of sittings. -
BILL WATCH 42 2019 Mid Year Budget Review & Supplementary Budget Presented
(2019-02)On Thursday 2nd August the Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Hon Mthuli Ncube, presented his 2019 Mid-Year Budget Review and Supplementary Budget to the National Assembly. President Mnangagwa attended the ... -
Bill Watch 43 2019 Media Commission Bill Gazetted & Budget and MOPO Bills passed by National Assembly 0
(2019-08)Both Houses of Parliament sat this week. The Senate sat on Tuesday 6th and Wednesday 7th August and then adjourned until Tuesday 27th August. The National Assembly sat on Tuesday, Wednesday and yesterday before also ... -
BILL WATCH 44 2019 Amendments to the Maaintenance of Peace and Order Bill
(2019-08)At a sitting that started on 8th August and ended at 4.10 am on 9th August the National Assembly passed the Maintenance of Peace and Order Bill with amendments, most of which were intended to meet objections raised by the ... -
BILL WATCH 45 2019 President Orders Special Senate Sitting on Wednesday 14th August
(2019-08)By furious fast-tracking of business on Wednesday 8th [they sat until 10.39 pm] and Thursday 9th [until 4.10 am on Friday morning] the National Assembly managed to pass, not only the Finance (No. 2) Bill and the Appropriation ... -
BILL WATCH 46 2019 SADC Summit in Dar es Salaam 17 18 August
(2019-08)The 39th Ordinary Summit of the Heads of State and Government of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) was held at the Julius Nyerere International Convention Centre in Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania ... -
BILL WATCH 47 2019 Supplementary Budget Acts gazetted & MOPO Bill delayed
(2019-08)Recalled from their recess by the President to conduct special business [see Bill Watch 45/2019 of 12th August [link] – Senators assembled on Wednesday 14th August for a single sitting that lasted for just over eight hours, ... -
BILL WATCH 48 2019 MOPO passed & Parliament Sitting Again This Week
(2019-09)On Tuesday 27th August the Senate received the Parliamentary Legal Committee [PLC]'s non-adverse report on the amendment to clause 7(5) of the Bill made at its special sitting on 14th August. -
BILL WATCH 49 2019Parliament Sits This Week to end its First Session
(2019-09)There will be a ceremonial opening of the Second Session on Tuesday 1st October. During this opening the President will present his State of the Nation Address [SONA] and outline the legislative agenda for this session. -
BILL WATCH 50 2019 New Measures to Outlaw Use of Forex in Zimbabwe
(2019-09)Three months ago, when the Minister of Finance and Economic Development gazetted SI 142/2019 [link] declaring RTGS dollars to be the only legal tender in Zimbabwe, press headlines referred to the "outlawing" of the use of ... -
BILL WATCH 51 2019 Last Week in Parliament & Second Session Opened Today 1st October
(2019-10)President Mnangagwa opened the Second Session of the Ninth Parliament of Zimbabwe at a joint sitting of both Houses of Parliament in the National Assembly today. -
BILL WATCH 52 2019 Update on Statutory Instruments Part 1
(2019-10)The purpose of this bulletin and another to follow soon is to provide, in two Parts, an update on Government Gazettes and statutory instruments from 1st August to date which have not been noted previously in our bulletins.