Constitution of Zambia
[No. 1 of 2016
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GOVERNMENT OF ZAMBIA
ACT
No. 1 of 2016
Date of Assent: 5th January, 2016
An Act to provide for the printing and publication of the
Constitution; to provide for the savings and transitional
provisions of existing State organs, State institutions,
administrations, offices, institutions and laws; to provide
for the savings of succession to assets, rights, liabilities,
obligations and legal proceedings; and to provide for
matters connected with, or incidental to, the foregoing.
[5th January, 2016
ENACTED by the Parliament of Zambia.
Enactment
1. This Act may be cited as the Constitution of Zambia Act,
2016.
Short title
2.
(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—
“Constitution” means the Constitution of Zambia, 1991, in
force immediately before the effective date;
“effective date” means the date of the commencement of
this Act and the Constitution as amended as provided in
section four; and
“existing laws” means the Laws of Zambia as they exist
immediately before the effective date, including any
statutory instrument issued or made before that date which
is to come into force on, or after, the effective date.
(2) Except where the context otherwise requires, words and
expressions used in this Act have the same meaning as in the
Constitution as amended.
Interpretation
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