Zimbabwe Institution of Engineers (Private) Act

Jurisdiction
Zimbabwe
Citation
Chapter 27:16
Date
31 December 2016
Language
English
Type
Legislation
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Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe Institution of Engineers (Private) Act

Chapter 27:16

  • Commenced on 20 October 1967
  • [This is the version of this document at 31 December 2016 and includes any amendments published up to 31 December 2017.]
  • [Note: This version of the Act was revised and consolidated by the Law Development Commission of Zimbabwe]
AN ACT to re-enact with amendments the provisions of the Rhodesian Institution of Engineers (Private) Act [Chapter 216 of 1963].
WHEREAS the Rhodesian Institution of Engineers (Private) Act [Chapter 216 of 1963] provides for the establishment and incorporation of the Rhodesian Institution of Engineers, defines its powers and its objects, makes provision with respect to different classes of members and the designation and description of members and with respect to improper use of such designations and descriptions, provides for the appointment of an Inaugural Board and the registration of members, provides for the appointment of a Council and the management of the Institution and for other matters connected with the foregoing;AND WHEREAS it is expedient to extend the objects of the Institution, to amend the classes of membership and to provide an additional class of membership, to amend the Council’s powers governing the admission of members, to provide for the use of prefixes to the names of members, to amend the designations and descriptions which members may use, to amend the registration of members and their qualifications of membership and to make further and other amendments incidental thereto or consequential thereon;AND WHEREAS it is expedient to re-enact the Act with amendments giving effect to the matters specified in the preceding paragraph of this preamble and, in so doing, to leave out certain provisions of the Act which are spent:BE IT ENACTED:—

1. Short title

This Act may be cited as the Zimbabwe Institution of Engineers (Private) Act [Chapter 27:16].

2. Interpretation

In this Act—“Board” means the Board of the Institution;[definition of “Board” inserted by Act 3 of 2008.]“Council” means the Engineering council established in terms of the Engineering Council Act [Chapter 27:22] (No. 3 of 2008);[definition of “Council” substituted by Act 3 of 2008.]“Institution” means the Zimbabwe Institution of Engineers established by the previous Act and by this Act;“member” means a person registered in terms of this Act as a member of the Institution of any grade;“Minister” means the Minister of Public Construction and National Housing or any other Minister to whom the President may, from time to time, assign the administration of this Act;“previous Act” means the Rhodesian Institution of Engineers (Private) Act [Chapter 216 of 1963];“Register” means the list of members registered as members of the Institution.

3. The Institution

(1)The Institution established by the previous Act is hereby re-incorporated under the same title in terms of this Act.
(2)The Institution established is a body corporate with perpetual succession capable of suing and being sued and may—
(a)purchase, hire or otherwise acquire and hold movable and immovable property and erect buildings for the purposes of the Institution;
(b)borrow or otherwise raise money in such manner as the Institution may think fit;
(c)sell, realize, lease, mortgage, alienate, improve or otherwise deal with all or any of the property of the Institution;
(d)invest the funds of the Institution which are not immediately required upon such security, if any, as may from time to time be determined;
(e)institute, control and supervise professional and technical training, teaching and examinations;
(f)establish, support or aid in the establishment and support of associations, funds, trusts, pensions or provident schemes to benefit officers, members or former officers and members or their dependants, and grant pensions and allowances to any officer, member or former officer or member or his dependants;
(g)make charitable donations and grants-in-aid of objects which would benefit the profession;
(h)do all such acts and things as are conducive to the attainment of the objects of the Institution.

4. Objects

The objects of the Institution are—
(a)to promote the general advancement of engineering and its allied sciences and their application and to facilitate the exchange and dissemination of information and ideas in such matters amongst members and other persons or associations;
(b)to raise the character and status of the profession of engineering and its allied sciences, to promote honourable practice and repress malpractice and to increase and promote the confidence of the commu- nity in those persons practising and teaching the profession of engineering and its allied sciences;
(c)to promote the study and the advancement of the engineering sciences and their application by the prosecution of scientific research and the establishment of technical libraries and other facilities, to make grants of money, books, apparatus or otherwise in connection therewith and to conduct, prescribe or recommend training, courses and examinations in and the teaching of engineering knowledge;[paragraph amended by Act 3 of 2008.]
(d)to hold meetings of the Institution for reading papers and discussing matters bearing upon engineering, or the application thereof, or upon subjects relating thereto, to publish papers and to make awards to au- thors for papers of special merit;
(e)to take such steps as may be deemed desirable to promote good public relations and the recruitment of personnel to the profession of engineering and its allied sciences.

5. Grades of members

The grades of members shall be as prescribed.

6. Registrations amended

All members registered as honorary members, full members, associate members, associates, companions, graduates and students under the previous Act shall, subject to regulations made in terms of section sixteen, from the 20th October, 1967, be registered respectively as honorary fellows, fellows, members, affiliates, companions, graduates and students.

7. Register of members

The Board shall maintain the Register in which any person was registered as a member of the Institution in terms of the previous Act as altered in pursuance of section six and shall effect further registration of persons entitled to be registered as members in terms of this Act.[section 7 amended by Act 3 of 2008.]

8. ***

[section repealed by Act 3 of 2008.]

9. Management and control

The management and control of the Institution shall be vested in the Board which shall be appointed or elected by the Institution and which may exercise all such powers and do all such things as may be exercised and done by the Institution save those which are expressly directed by this Act to be exercised or done by the Institution in general meeting.[section amended by Act 3 of 2008.]

10. Limitation of liability

Members of the Board shall not be personally liable for any action taken in such capacity, and the personal li- ability of any member shall be limited to the payment of his subscription, registration and transfer fees.[section amended by Act 3 of 2008.]

11. Seal

The Board shall provide a seal for the Institution and shall have power from time to time to destroy the said seal and substitute another in place thereof. The seal of the Institution shall only be affixed to a document in pursuance of a resolution of the Board and in the presence of two members of the Board who shall testify it duly executed by their signatures thereto and thereupon such document shall be received and recognized as the act of the Institution.[section amended by Act 3 of 2008.]

12. Removal from Register on non-payment of fees

If the subscription or fees of any member are in arrear for more than six months after having been duly demanded, his name may by resolution of the Board be removed from the Register and he shall cease to be a member but he shall be liable to pay all moneys due by him to the date of such removal:Provided that on payment of the said arrears the Council may restore such member's name to the Register.[section amended by Act 3 of 2008.]

13. ***

[section repealed by Act 3 of 2008.]

14. ***

[section repealed by Act 3 of 2008.]

15. Improper use of designations

(1)A person who—
(a)not being a member of the Institution, describes or holds himself out as a member or uses any name, title, prefix, description, letters, abbreviations or initials indicating that he is a member; or
(b)being a member of the Institution, describes or holds himself out as a member of a grade in which he is not registered or uses any name, title, prefix, description, letters, abbreviations or initials indicating that he is a member of a grade in which he is not registered;
whether by advertisement, letters or writing or by description in any form in or at his place of business, residence or elsewhere shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level five or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months or to both such fine and such imprisonment.[section as amended by Act No. 22 of 2001]

16. Rules

(1)The Board may, subject to the approval of the Minister, make rules—
(a)providing for the management, including the appointment and remuneration of officers, powers and duties of the Institution and defining the rights, privileges and conduct of the members;
(b)prescribing the qualifications of any grade of members and the rights and privileges within the Institu- tion attaching to such grade;
(c)prescribing the titles, prefixes, descriptions, letters, abbreviations or initials by which members of any grade may indicate their status as such;
(d)providing for the composition of the Board and the nomination and election or appointment of members of the Board;
(e)prescribing the procedure, powers and duties of the Board and the conduct of its affairs;
(f)prescribing the procedure and forms in connection with—
(i)applications for membership;
(ii)the registration of members;
(iii)the transfer of members from one grade to another;
(g)prescribing the procedure for the removal or resignation of members;
(h)for the preservation of the copyright of papers, reports of proceedings and discussions of the Institution;
(i)for the establishment of divisions of the Institution in different areas of Zimbabwe;
(j)for the formation of sections and branches within the Institution and providing for their registration, discipline, procedure, powers and duties;
(k)for the formation of committees and the delegation of the Board's powers to such committees;
(l)making provision for voting by proxy, by post and otherwise;
(m)prescribing the procedure for inquiry into the conduct of members;
(n)as to what shall constitute unworthy, unprofessional or dishonourable conduct;
(o)as to the fees payable on registration and transfer of members and as to the subscriptions to be paid by members;
(p)prescribing the time, mode and place of summoning and holding ordinary and special general meetings, the quorum to be present thereat, the mode of voting and the conduct of proceedings thereat;
(q)tending in general to maintain and improve the status and promote the general advancement of professional engineering and its allied sciences, to facilitate the exchange and dissemination of information and to enable agreements to be entered into with other institutions for recognition of the Institution on a reciprocal basis and the registration of members, and generally for carrying out the objects of the Institution;
(r)providing for anything which under this Act is required or permitted to be prescribed or which, in the opinion of the Board, is necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the provisions of this Act:
Provided that no rule shall fix or provide for the fixing of fees for professional services.[subsection amended by Act 3 of 2008.]
(2)Rules made in terms of subsection (1) may prescribe any institution, association, society, degree, diploma, certificate or qualification for any grade of membership of the Institution by reference to a publication or document which—
(a)contains a list of such institutions, associations, societies, degrees, diplomas, certificates or qualifica- tions, as the case may be; and
(b)is available for inspection, free of charge, at the offices of the Institution.
(3)If on one of the twenty-eight days on which Parliament next sits after any rules made under subsection (1) are laid before it in terms of section 36 of the Interpretation Act [Chapter 1:01] a resolution is passed requesting the Minister to rescind or vary the rules, the rules shall forthwith be rescinded or varied, as the case may be, by statutory instrument without prejudice to the validity of anything previously.
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History of this document

20 October 1967
Commences.