been published in the Gazette, but Parliament may postpone the coming
into operation of any such law and may make laws with retrospective
effect.
(8) All laws made by Parliament shall be styled "Acts" and the words of
enactment shall be "Enacted by the Parliament of Zambia."
80. (1) Nothing in Article 62 shall prevent Parliament from conferring Statutory
Instruments
on any person or authority power to make statutory instruments.
(2) Every statutory instrument shall be published in the Gazette not later
than twenty-eight days after it is made or, in the case of a statutory
instrument which will not have the force of law unless it is approved by
some person or authority other than the person or authority by which it
was made, not later than twenty-eight days after it is so approved, and if
it is not so published it shall be void from the date on which it was made.
(3) Where a tribunal appointed under Article 27 reports to the President
that any provision of a statutory instrument is inconsistent with any
provision of this Constitution, the President may, by order annul that
statutory instrument and it shall thereupon be void from the date on
which it was made.
Restrictions with
81. Except upon the recommendation of the President signified by the regard to certain
Vice-President or a Minister, the National Assembly shall notfinancial matters
(a)
proceed upon any Bill (including an amendment to a Bill) that, in
the opinion of the person presiding, makes provision for any of
the following purposes:
(i)
for the imposition of taxation or the alteration of taxation
otherwise than by reduction;
(ii)
for the imposition of any charge upon the general revenues of the
Republic or the alteration of any such charge otherwise than by
reduction;
(iii)
for the payment, issue or withdrawal from the general revenues
of the Republic of any moneys not charged thereon or any increase in
the amount of such payment, issue or withdrawal; or