Note by Veritas
This Bill seeks to give effect to the Estimates of Expenditure for 2014 approved by the National Assembly on 29th January 2014. It replaces the original Bill gazetted on 3rd January 2014 as H.B. 10, 2013 which attracted an adverse report from the Parliamentary Legal Committee on the ground that that it failed to comply with the requirement in section 305(3) of the Constitution that there be separate estimates for each of: each Commission established by the Constitution, the office of the Auditor-General, the National Prosecuting Authority, and the Council of Chiefs. The Parliamentary Legal Committee has expressed itself satisfied that the issues that attracted the adverse report on H.B. 10, 2013 have been addressed in this replacement Bill.
To apply a sum of money for the service of Zimbabwe during the year ending on the 31st December 2014. ENACTED by the President and the House of Assembly. This Act may be cited as the Appropriation (2014) Act, 2013.