Zimbabwe Independent Complaints Commission Bill : Minister's Amendments for Committee Stage

NOTICE OF AMENDMENTS

Zimbabwe Independent Complaints Commission Bill, 2020 (H.B. 5, 2019)

AMENDMENT OF CLAUSE 6

BY THE MINISTER OF JUSTICE, LEGAL AND PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS

In Clause 6(1) on page 4 of the Bill, delete paragraph (a)  on lines 15, 16 and 17 and substitute:¾

“(a)  a Chairperson, being a person who is eligible for appointment as a High Court judge or is a sitting judge or former judge, appointed by the President (after consultation with the Judicial Service Commission) from a list of not fewer than seven nominees submitted by the Committee on Standing Rules and Orders of Parliament in terms of section 237(1) of the Constitution; and”.

AMENDMENT OF CLAUSE 13

BY THE MINISTER OF JUSTICE, LEGAL AND PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS: In Clause 13 on page 7 of the Bill, insert after line 42 the following paragraph to sub-clause (2):-

“(c) where the action complained of is the subject of an internal disciplinary process by the appropriate security service at the time the complaint is received by the Commission:

provided that if the Commission is of the view, after consulting with the appropriate security service and taking into account any of its concerns, that the internal process in question has taken too long, then the Commission may fix a reasonable period within which such process must be concluded, in default of which the Commission may itself thereafter entertain the complaint.”

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