The regulations are aimed at shoring up the Zimbabwe dollar on which the country is banking to stablise the economy and bring down inflation which was put at 161.9% this month.
The government aims to reduce inflation to below 10% by the end of the year.
The Zimbabwe dollar has been falling steadily against the United States dollar since the beginning of the year.
It kicked off the year at $82.09 and was down to $84.73 on Wednesday, a drop of $2.64.
It opened at $57.36 when the auction was launched on 23 June last year and ended the year at $81.79, a drop of $24.53.
It had peaked at $83.40 on 25 August, just two months after the start of the auction.
Below is the full statutory instrument 127 of 2021
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