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Parliament resumes sitting today
The Herald (Zimbabwe)
February 07, 2006

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BOTH Houses of Parliament resume sitting today after a six-week break with business proceeding as scheduled beginning with the consideration of various Bills and motions.

The House of Assembly is expected to consider an adverse report by the Parliamentary Legal Committee on the Education Amendment Bill.

The proposed law seeks to give the Minister of Education, Sport and Culture additional powers in relation to school fees and powers to fix an appropriate fee or levy after granting or refusing an appeal.

It also wants to upgrade the status of local languages.

The Attorney General’s Office Bill that seeks to establish a board to constitute the AG’s Office as a service outside the Public Service and provide for the administration of the office and conditions of service of its members is also scheduled to be read for the second time in the Lower House.

The Senate business includes the second reading of the Zimbabwe Investment Centre Bill that seeks to establish an authority for processing applications for investment licences, planning and implementation of investment promotion strategies.

The operations of the authority shall be controlled by a board made up of 11 members appointed by the Minister of Industry and International Trade in consultation with the President.

Under the proposed law, an Investment Committee will be established and tasked with making recommendations to the board for the approval or rejection of applications for investment licences.

Before adjourning last December, Parliament passed a number of Bills that included the Labour Amendment Bill, which seeks to amend the Labour Act in light of the experience gained in implementing it since the last major changes made by the Labour Relations Amendment Act of 2002.

The Bill seeks to perfect labour legislation in the country by making the Labour Act the supreme law on labour matters.

Parliament now has 216 members drawn from the Lower and Upper Houses.

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