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2002 Presidential & Harare Municipal elections - Index of articles
Public
Order and Security Act (POSA)
January 22,
2002
See
the Public Order and Security Amendment Act, 2007
Updated by: General
Laws Amendment Act, 2005 (No. 6 of 2005), with effect from 3rd
February, 2006
This Act was promulgated
by Extraordinary Government Gazette on 22 January 2002, becoming law with
effect from 22 January 2002.
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ACT
To make provision for the maintenance of public order and security in
Zimbabwe; to amend the Citizenship of Zimbabwe Act [Chapter 4:01],
the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act [Chapter 9:07] and
the Miscellaneous Offences Act [Chapter 9:15]; to repeal the
Law and Order (Maintenance) Act [Chapter 11:07]; and to provide
for matters connected with or incidental to the foregoing.
ENACTED
by the President and the Parliament of Zimbabwe.
PART
I
Preliminary
1. Short title.
2. Interpretation.
3. Realisation of
risk or possibility as an element of offences under this Act.
4. Regulating authorities.
PART
II
Offences
Against Constitutional Government and Public Security
5. Subverting constitutional
government.
6. Insurgency, banditry,
sabotage or terrorism.
7. Recruiting or
training insurgents, bandits, saboteurs or terrorists.
8. Training as insurgent,
bandit, saboteur or terrorist.
9. Supplying weaponry
to insurgents, bandits, saboteurs or terrorists.
10. Possessing weaponry
for insurgency, banditry, sabotage or terrorism.
11. Harbouring,
concealing or failing to report insurgent, bandit, saboteur or terrorist.
12. Causing disaffection
among Police Force or Defence Forces.
13. Possession of
dangerous weapons.
14. Temporary prohibition
of possession of certain weapons within particular police districts.
15. Publishing or
communicating false statements prejudicial to the State.
16. Undermining
authority of or insulting President.
PART
III
Offences
Against Public Order
17. Public violence.
18. Throwing articles
at persons, motor vehicles, etc.
19. Gatherings conducing
to riot, disorder or intolerance.
20. Assaulting or
resisting peace officer.
21. Undermining
of police authority.
22. Intimidation.
PART
IV
Public
Gatherings
23. Interpretation
in Part IV.
24. Organiser to
notify regulating authority of intention to hold public gathering.
25. Regulation of
public gatherings.
26. Prohibition
of public gatherings to avoid public disorder.
27. Temporary prohibition
of holding of public demonstrations within particular police districts.
28. Civil liability
in certain circumstances of organiser of public gathering.
29. Dispersal of
unlawful public gatherings.
30. Prohibition
of offensive weapons at public gatherings.
31. Disrupting public
gatherings.
PART
V
Enforcement
and Preservation of Public Order and Security
32. Persons to
carry identity documents.
33. Cordon and search.
34. Powers of stopping
and searching
35. Powers of police
officers in relation to aircraft, aerodromes and airstrips.
PART
VI
General
36. Attorney-General
to authorise prosecutions under this Act.
37. When Defence
Forces may assist Police Force under this Act.
38. Powers of seizure
and forfeiture in relation to vehicles, aircraft and vessels.
39. Powers of search,
seizure and forfeiture generally.
40. Special jurisdiction
of magistrates.
41. Amendment of
Schedule.
42. Saving of other
laws as to riotous gatherings, etc.
43. Amendment of
Cap. 4:01.
44. Amendment of
Cap. 9:07.
45. Amendment of
Cap. 9:15.
46. Repeal of Cap.
11:07.
SCHEDULE: Classes
of public gatherings to which Section 24 does not apply.
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