are the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker of the existing National
Assembly shall continue to be respectively the Speaker and the Deputy
Speaker of the National Assembly during the period beginning on the
commencement of this Act and ending on the date set for the holding of
elections to the office of the National Assembly under the Constitution.
(4) All the functions and powers vested in Parliament by the
Constitution shall be exercised, during the period beginning on the
commencement of this Act and ending on the date set for the holding of
elections to the office of President and National Assembly, by
Parliament in accordance with the Constitution.
(5) The rules and orders of the existing National Assembly as in force
immediately before the commencement of this Act, shall, until it is
otherwise provided for under Article 86 of the Constitution be the rules
of procedure of the National Assembly but shall be construed with such
modifications, adaptions, qualifications and exceptions as may be
necessary to bring them into conformity with the Constitution.
(6) Any person who under this section continued to be the Speaker, the
Deputy Speaker or a member of the National Assembly after the
commencement of this Act shall be deemed to have taken the necessary
oath under the Constitution.
(7) All money granted, voted or appropriated by the existing National
Assembly in respect of the services of the Republic for the current
financial year shall be deemed to have been granted, voted or
appropriated by the existing National Assembly and in accordance with
the Constitution.
11. (1) Subject to this Act and the Constitution, all property of every
nature and kind whatsoever and all assets that immediately before the
commencement of this Act were vested in, or held in trust for, the
President or in any other person in right of or for the purposes of the
Government of Zambia shall after the commencement of this Act
continue to be so vested or held in trust, as the case may be.
(2) Any property which, immediately before the commencement of this
Act, was liable to escheat or to be forfeited to the President for the
purposes of the Government of Zambia, after the commencement of this
Act, shall continue to be liable to escheat or to be forfeited to the
President on behalf of the Government of Zambia.
Succession to
property and assets