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Per Section 143 (1) of the Constitution of Zimbabwe, the 9th Parliament will officially begin the day the president-elect is sworn in. [1] Per Section 145 (1) of the Constitution, the president advises as to the date of the official opening of Parliament, and Section 145 (2) stipulates that the date will be officially set by the Clerk of ...
However, Article 78 of the Constitution of Zimbabwe contains an explicit ban on same-sex marriages: [16] Persons of the same sex are prohibited from marrying each other. [b] This ban was introduced in 2013 following the adoption of a new constitution. The previous constitution enacted in 1980 did not contain such a ban. [19]
The rest of the Constitution came into operation on 22 August 2013, when the President was sworn in after the first elections following the Act's assent; this date is the “effective date” as defined in paragraph 1 of the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution. Some of the new constitution's clauses, however, do not take effect for 10 years. [5]
Rautenbach launched a legal challenge against the validity of the 1999 raids, and of the evidence seized in the process, with the Constitutional Court ultimately ruling against him. [41] In court papers, the state claimed that Rautenbach was linked to the murder of Yong Koo Kwon of Daewoo Motors , who had been shot dead in his car in ...
The constitution of Zimbabwe had been drawn up as part of the Lancaster House Agreement of 1979 and had served the country for nearly 20 years. There was a widespread feeling in Zimbabwe that it was too heavily influenced by the country's colonial past, and that a new constitution written in the light of the experience of independence was desirable.
The single-subject rule is a rule in the constitutional law of some jurisdictions that stipulates that some or all types of legislation may deal with only one main issue. One purpose is to avoid complexity in acts, to avoid any hidden provisions that legislators or voters may miss when reading the proposed law.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel's parliament will on Wednesday start work on a fresh bill that limits Supreme Court power to rule against the government, the Knesset said, risking renewed uproar over ...
The Constitutional Court decided that, in cases where a law is unconstitutional because of an omission, the courts may apply the technique of "reading in" to insert words to extend the law. The court laid down certain conditions, requiring that the words to be read in can be precisely defined, and that they should not interfere too greatly with ...