Constitution of Zambia (Amendment) [No. 2 of 2016 23 (3) Where the National Assembly passes the Bill with amendments, in accordance with clause (2) (a), the Speaker shall submit the Bill to the President for assent. (4) Where the National Assembly passes the Bill, in accordance with clause (2) (b)— (a) the Speaker shall, within seven days of passing the Bill, resubmit the Bill to the President; and (b) the President shall, within seven days of receipt of the Bill, assent to the Bill. (5) Where the National Assembly fails to pass the Bill, in accordance with clause (2) (b), the Bill shall not be presented to the National Assembly in that session. (6) Where the President does not assent to a Bill within the periods prescribed in clauses (1) and (4), the Bill shall be considered assented to upon the expiry of those periods. 67. (1) Article 62 or 63 shall not prevent Parliament from conferring on a person or authority power to make statutory instruments. (2) A statutory instrument shall be published in the Gazette— (a) not later than twenty-eight days after it is made; or (b) in the case of a statutory instrument which will not have the force of law unless it is approved by a person or an authority, other than a person or an authority by which it was made, not later than twenty-eight days after it is so approved; and if the statutory instrument is not so published, it is void from the date on which it was made. (3) A person may challenge a statutory instrument, for its constitutionality, within fourteen days of the publication of the statutory instrument in the Gazette. (4) Where the Constitutional Court considers that a challenge of a statutory instrument is frivolous or vexatious, the Constitutional Court shall dismiss the action. (5) Where the Constitutional Court decides that a provision of a statutory instrument is inconsistent with a provision of this Constitution, that statutory instrument is void from the date on which it was made. Statutory instruments