What can be brought to a referendum?

(Mandatoryreferendum)

Constitution ofZambia

(Adopted on August 24, 1991, last amended in 1996)

http://aceproject.org/ero-en/regions/africa/ZM/Constitution%20of%20Zambia%201996.pdf/at_download/file

Article79.

(3) A bill for the alteration of Part III of this Constitution or of thisArticle shall not be passed unless before the first reading of the bill in theNational Assembly it has been put to a National referendum with or withoutamendment by not less than fifty per cent of persons entitled to be registeredas voters for the purposes of Presidential and parliamentary elections.

(Optional referendum)

Referendum Act (Chapter 14 of the Laws ofZambia)

(Enacted in 1969, last amended in 1994)

http://aceproject.org/ero-en/regions/africa/ZM/Referendum%20Act%20Cap14.pdf/view

Part 1, Article 2(1).

The President may, if in his opinion it is necessary or desirable so todo, by *statutory order, direct that a referendum be held on any question orquestions specified in the order.