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FORUM PARTY OF ZIMBABWE & ORS v MINISTER OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT, RURAL AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT & ORS 1997 (2) ZLR 194 (S)

1997 (2) ZLR p194

Citation

1997 (2) ZLR 194 (S)

Case No

Judgment No. S-129-97

Court

Supreme Court, Harare

Judge

Gubbay JA, McNally JA, Korsah JA, Ebrahim JA & Muchechetere JA

Heard

31 July 1997

Judgment

14 August 1997

Counsel

A P de Bourbon SC, for the appellants
P A Chinamasa, Attorney-General, with him J Musimbe, for the first, fourth and fifth respondents
P Nherere, for the second and third respondents

Case Type

Constitutional appeal

Annotations

Link to case annotations

Flynote

Local authority — election — mayoral election — validity — validity of elections held under Presidential Powers (Temporary Measures) (Urban Councils) Regulations 1995 — whether elections validated by subsequent legislation

Statutes — regulations — validity — regulations possibly ultra vires the enabling legislation and possibly unconstitutional — mayoral elections held in terms of questioned regulations — whether regulations could be validated by subsequent legislation — whether elections could be validated by subsequent legislation

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