Zambia Constitution | Esheria AI

Professional constitutional overview

Textual architecture, allocation of power and research posture

Constitutional architecture

The stored constitutional corpus for Zambia brings the recorded instruments and their eligible provision metadata into one navigable research record.

Read the instruments together where the constitutional system is distributed across more than one text. The provision map preserves instrument, chapter and article context while keeping direct links to the stored source record.

21 provisions

Constitution of Zambia Act, 2016

Constitutional Foundation Act

8 provisions

Constitution of Zambia (Amendment) Act, 2016

Constitutional Amendment

0 provisions

Constitution of Zambia (Amendment) Act, 2025

Constitutional Amendment

35 provisions

Constitution of Zambia Act, 1991

Constitutional Foundation Act

Allocation of public power

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Legislative authority

Provisions concerning representative institutions, law-making authority and legislative procedure.

cl 13 · cl 21 · cl 21

Executive government

Provisions concerning executive office, administration and the exercise of public authority.

cl 7 · cl 8

Judicial authority

Provisions concerning courts, judicial power, jurisdiction and the administration of justice.

cl 15 · cl 16 · cl 27

Public finance

Provisions concerning public money, revenue, expenditure and financial accountability.

cl 11 · cl 25

Constitutional change

Provisions governing amendment, alteration, referendum or formal constitutional review.

cl 1 · cl 2 · cl 3 · cl 4

Rights and limitations on power

The rows below are selected from stored headings that signal rights, freedoms, equality or related limits. Open eligible provisions for the stored source wording.

Rights, Rights, duties and obligations of the Government subsisting: Constitution of Zambia Act, 2016
Fundamental rights and freedoms: Constitution of Zambia Act, 1991
Protection of right to life: Constitution of Zambia Act, 1991
Protection of right to personal liberty: Constitution of Zambia Act, 1991
Protection of freedom of conscience: Constitution of Zambia Act, 1991

Alteration and constitutional change

These source-indexed provisions contain headings associated with amendment, alteration, referendum, review or repeal.

cl 1This Act may be cited as the Constitution of Zambia Short title
cl 2The Constitution is amended by the repeal of the Preamble Repeal and
cl 3The Constitution is amended by the repeal of Parts I and II
cl 4The Constitution is amended by the repeal of Part IV and
cl 5The Constitution is amended by the renumbering of Part V
cl 6The Constitution is amended by the repeal of Articles 62 to Repeal and

Research posture and source status

Current In Force

4 recorded instruments · English

Verify treatment

This page is a source-indexed map of the recorded constitutional release. Constitutional meaning may also depend on judicial interpretation, convention, transitional instruments and later official amendments.