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Labour Amendment Bill, 2005 [H.B.1, 2005]
November 02, 2005

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LABOUR AMENDMENT BILL, 2005

This document reflects the Bill as finally passed by Parliament on Wednesday the 2nd November, 2005, and incorporates the Committee Stage amendments recorded in the Votes and Proceedings of the House for that day.

Parliamentary History

• First Reading: 22nd June, 2005
• PLC Report: 18th August, 2005 (adverse report)
• PLC Report withdrawn: Tuesday 1st November, 2005 (following Minister's undertaking to remove cause for Committee's objection to clause 29 of the Bill by moving an appropriate Committee Stage amendment).
• Second Reading: Tuesday 1st November, 2005.
• Committee Stage: Wednesday 2nd November, 2005 (four amendments approved).
• PLC Report on amended Bill: Wednesday 2nd November, 2005 (non-adverse report)
• Third Reading: Wednesday 2nd November, 2005.

The Committee Stage amendments
In this document the four Committee Stage amendments are highlighted by red font for new material and strikethrough font for deleted words. Only four clauses are affected.

• Clause 26 is new, necessitating renumbering of the remaining clauses and leaving the Bill with a total of forty clauses as opposed to the thirty-nine of the original Bill.
• The other amendments are to be found in the renumbered clauses 29, 30 and 32.
• The amendment to clause 30 (originally clause 29) removed the only objection raised by the PLC in its adverse report. It did so by deleting words allowing a presiding officer in the Labour Court to terminate questioning of witnesses in certain circumstances. The PLC had considered those words inconsistent with the right to a fair trial enshrined in section 18(9) of the Constitution.

BILL

ENACTED by the President and Parliament of Zimbabwe.

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