CHAPTER 108
EMERGENCY POWERS ACT

Arrangement of Sections

   Section

   1.   Short title

   2.   Interpretation

   3.   Emergency regulations

   4.   Repugnancy with other enactments

   5.   Duration, etc., of emergency regulations

   6.   Proof of documents

AN ACT

to empower the President to make emergency regulations whenever an emergency proclamation is in force; to specify the matters which may be provided for in emergency regulations; to provide for the duration of emergency regulations; and to provide for matters incidental to or connected with the foregoing.

[24th October, 1964]

Act 43 of 1964.

1. Short title

This Act may be cited as the Emergency Powers Act.

2. Interpretation

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—

“the Constitution” means the Constitution of the Republic;

“emergency proclamation” means a proclamation under the Constitution declaring that a state of public emergency exists;

“emergency regulations” means regulations made under section 3;

“enactment” means an instrument having the force of law other than the Constitution and this Act;

“the President” means the President of the Republic;

“the Republic” means the Republic of Zambia.