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4 First draft: 16 th February, 2005 Second draft: 19 th November 2009 Third draft: 16 th December 2009 Fourth Draft: 17 th December 2009 Fifth Draft: 10 November 2010 Sixth Draft: 24 th February 2011 BILL AN ACT to provide for the well-being of older persons; to provide for the appointment of a Director for Older Persons affairs, the establishment of an Older Persons Board; to create an Older Persons Fund and to provide for matters connected therewith, or incidental thereto. ENACTED by the President and Parliament of Zimbabwe.
5 PART 1 PRELIMINARY 1 Short title and date of Commencement (1) This Act may be cited as the Older Persons Act, [Chapter....] 2011. (2) This Act shall come into operation on a date to be fixed by the President by statutory instrument. 2 Interpretation In this Act⎯ “Adjustment order” means an adjustment order served in terms of section 11; “Board” means Older Persons Board established in terms of section 4; “court” in relation to a maintenance order means a Magistrates court in whose area of jurisdiction the older person ordinarily resides; “Director” means the Director of Older Persons Affairs referred in section 3; “Minister” means the Minister of Labour and Social Services or any other Minister whom the President may assign the administration of this Act; “older person” means a citizen of Zimbabwe aged sixty five years or above, who is ordinarily resident therein; “ordinarily resident” means, in relation to an older person, an older person who resides in Zimbabwe for not less than one hundred and eighty one days in any calendar year, PART II ESTABLSHMENT OF THE OLDER PERSONS BOARD 3 Director for Older Persons’ Affairs (1). There shall be a Director for Older Persons Affairs who shall be the person for the time being, holding the office of the Director of Social Welfare or lawfully acting in that capacity. (2) The functions of the Director shall be⎯ (a) to formulate proposals for measures which promote the general and specific provisions of the Act and which allow the Board to further all proposals and functions required from it thereof, as referred to in subsection (1) (b) of section 6. (b) through liaison with other relevant ministries, local authorities and other organisations, to secure the implementation of measures which have been recommended by the Board in terms of subsection (1)(b) of section six and approved by the Minister; (c) to co-ordinate the activities of homes, associations and organisations concerned with the care and protection of older persons;
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