The objects of the Bill are to provide for -

(a) a licensing system for the conduct of banking and financial business or provision of financial services;

(b) the incorporation of standards, principles and concepts of corporate governance in the institutional systems and structures of banks and financial institutions;

(c) sound business practices and consumer protection mechanisms;

(d) the regulation and supervision of banking and financial services;

(e) repeal and replace the Banking and Financial Services Act, 1994; and

The objects of this Bill are to -

(a) continue the existence of the Zambia Bureau of Standards and re-define its powers and functions;

(b) provide for the standardisation and quality assurance of products and services through the setting of national standards and provision of conformity assessment services for products and services;

(c) repeal and replace the Standards Act, 1994; and

(d) provide for matters connected with or incidental to the foregoing.

The objects of this Bill are to -

(a) establish the office of the Commissioner for Refugees and provide for its functions;

(b) provide for the recognition, protection and control of refugees;

(c) provide for the rights and responsibilities of refugees;

(d) establish the Refugees Fund;

(e) domesticate the United Nations Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, 1951, and its Protocol of 1967, and the Organisation of African Unity Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugees Problems in Africa, 1969;

The objects of this Bill are to -

(a) provide for the principles of, and a framework for, technical regulation that are compliant with best practice and regional and international obligations to which Zambia is a party;

(b) establish the Department of Technical Regulation in the Ministry responsible for trade;

(c) provide for the development and implementation of technical regulation for public safety and health, consumer protection and environmentalprotection;