Covid-19 : Statutory Instruments Underpinning Lock-down Extension

BILL WATCH 17/2020 [20th April 2020] Covid-19 : SIs Underpinning Lock-down Extension In a speech delivered at 4.30 p.m. yesterday, the President announced that the lock-down would continue for another 14 days, ending at midnight on Sunday the 3rd May – two days before schools are due to re-open. With commendable promptness the Government published …

Covid-19 and the Law : Part 1, 2 and 3

BILL WATCH 14/2020 [14th April 2020] Covid-19 and the Law : Part 1 The Covid-19 pandemic has reached Zimbabwe with seventeen reported cases to date, three of whom have tragically died.  After initial delays, the Government has finally enacted laws which give it powers to combat the disease. In this Bill Watch we shall describe …

Return of Farms to Certain Dispossessed Farmers

BILL WATCH 11/2020 [30th March 2020] Return of Farms to Certain Dispossessed Farmers Earlier this month the Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Water and Rural Resettlement gazetted a set of regulations ‒ the Land Commission (Gazetted Land)(Disposal in Lieu of Compensation) Regulations, 2020 (SI 62 of 2020) [link] ‒ which provided for the return of farms …

Regulations to Curb Spread of COVID-19

BILL WATCH 10/2020 [24th March 2020] Regulations to Curb Spread of COVID-19 A Government Gazette Extraordinary published late yesterday afternoon, 23rd March, contained two statutory instruments to give legal backing to the measures announced recently by the President and the Minister of Minister of Health and Child Care.  Both statutory instruments [SIs] came into force …