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Supple- mentary provisions regarding procedure. Annual Report (7) Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, the Council may make rules with respect to the regulation and conduct of its proceedings and the despatch of business but no such rules shall have effect until they have been approved by the Officer Administering the Government. (8) The Constitutional Council and the Chairman and members thereof shall have the same immunities and privileges, mutatis mutandis, as Parliament and the Members thereof. 99. (1) Parliament may make Standing Orders to provide for the consideration by Parliament of the reports of the Constitutional Council and for any subsequent proceedings thereon and, in par- ticular, to provide for the return of a Bill to Parliament and any subsequent procedure thereon, notwithstanding that such Bil may have previously been given a final reading and passed by Parlia. ment, (2) The Officer Administering the Government may make rules for the conduct of business between the Constitutional Council and Parliament and any authority empowered to make statutory instruments, for providing for any matters which are required to be prescribed, and generally for carrying out the purposes of this Chapter 100. Once in every year it shall be the duty of the Consti- tutional Council to compile and present to the Olficer Administer- ing the Government a report the work of the Council during the preceding twelve months including a statement of any moneys expended in litigation under the provisions of subsection (5) of section 80 The Officer Administering the Government shall cause such report to be laid before Parliament without undue delay. CHAPTER IX LAND 101. In this Chapler, unless the context otherwise requires--- "Board of Trustees" means the Board of Trustees estab. lished under section 102, "Tribal Trust Land" means all land in Rhodesia which immediately before the appointed day was Tribal Trust Land and all other land which may hereafter be added thereto by law for the use and occupation of tribesmen; "tribesman" beans a person who, under tribal law and custom. is recognized as a member of a community under the control or leadership of a chief appointed and holding office under the law for the time being governing the appointment of chiefs Interpreta- tion of Chapter IX

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