CIVIL EVIDENCE ACT [Chapter 8:01] as at 1st May 2007 paragraph and the goods that arrived at the destination specified in the consignment note; a document which purports to be an affidavit made by a person who states it that he prepared the consignment note or report and that the details set out in the consignment note or report are correct, shall be admissible, subject to subsection (12), on its production by any person as prima facie proof of the correctness of those details. (9) Where oral evidence would be admissible to prove that goods were delivered to a person who carries on business within Zimbabwe as a public carrier, whether by road, rail or air, a document which purports to be an affidavit made by a person who states in it that he delivered the goods or caused the goods to be delivered to the public carrier for transport by the public carrier shall be admissible, subject to subsection (12), on its production by any person as prima facie proof of that fact. (10) Where oral evidence would be admissible to prove one or more of the following— (a) that a person or thing has or has not been registered or licensed or that a permit, certificate or authority has or has not been issued in respect of a person or thing; (b) any particulars of or connected with the registration or licensing of a person or thing or any permit, certificate or authority issued in respect of a person or thing; (c) that anything relating to the registration or licensing of a person or thing or to any permit, certificate or authority issued in respect of a person or thing, including its cancellation or suspension, has or has not been done; a document which purports to be an affidavit made by a person who states in it that— (i) he has the custody or control of records relating to anything referred to in paragraph (a), whether done by himself or any other person; and (ii) from any examination of such records he has ascertained— A. that the person or thing concerned is or is not registered or licensed or that a permit, certificate or authority has or has not been issued to that person or thing; B. any particular referred to in paragraph (b); C. that anything referred to in paragraph (c) has or has not been done; as the case may be; shall be admissible, subject to subsection (12), on its production by any person as prima facie proof of those facts. (11) The court in which a document referred to in this section is produced may, of its own motion or at the request of a party to the civil proceedings concerned— (a) cause the person who made the document or any other person whose evidence appears to be necessary to give oral evidence in relation to any statement contained in the document; or (b) cause written interrogatories to be submitted to the person referred to in paragraph (a) for his reply; and such interrogatories or any document purporting to be a reply to them shall be admissible in the proceedings concerned on their production by any person. — 15 —