Section 100: Acting President

(1) Whenever the President is absent from Zimbabwe or is unable to exercise his or her official functions through illness or any other cause, those functions must be assumed and exercised—

    (a) by the first Vice-President;

    (b) where the first Vice-President is unable to exercise those functions, by the second

Vice-President; or

    (c) if there is no Vice-President who is able to exercise the functions, by a Minister—

          (i) designated for such an eventuality by the President; or

          (ii) nominated by the Cabinet, where no Minister has been designated by the

President in terms of subparagraph           (i) .

(2) Except in accordance with a resolution passed by a majority of the total membership of the Cabinet, a person exercising the functions of the office of President in terms of subsection (1) must not exercise the power of the President—

    (a) to deploy the Defence Forces;

    (b) to enter into any international convention, treaty or agreement;

    (c) to appoint or revoke the appointment of a Vice-President, Minister or Deputy Minister;

or

    (d) to assign or reassign functions to a Vice-President, Minister or Deputy Minister,

including, in the case of a Vice-President or Minister, the administration of any Act of

Parliament or of any Ministry or department, or to cancel any such assignment of

functions.