CIVIL EVIDENCE ACT [Chapter 8:01] as at 1st May 2007 51 Court not obliged to believe any evidence The fact that any evidence is rendered admissible by this Act shall not oblige the court to believe it or to rely on it. 52 Decision may be based on evidence of single witness Subject to any other law, a court may make a finding and base its decision on the evidence of a single competent and credible witness. 53 Power to take evidence on commission not limited by Act Nothing in this Act shall be construed as limiting the power of a court under any other enactment to order or allow the evidence of a witness to be taken on commission, nor as rendering any such evidence inadmissible. 54 Evidence admissible under more than one provision of Act Subject to section forty-four, where any evidence is rendered admissible in terms of two or more provisions of this Act, it may be admitted under any of those provisions. 55 Interpreters (1) Where a witness is unable to give evidence in the language in which the proceedings are being held, the party calling him as a witness shall cause him to be provided with the services of a properly qualified interpreter, approved by the court, to translate his evidence into that language. (2) Subject to rules of court, the court shall cause to be administered to an interpreter provided in terms of subsection (1) such oath as the court considers suitable for the occasion. (3) Subject to rules of court, the reasonable costs of an interpreter provided in terms of subsection (1) shall be allowed in the taxation of any costs that are awarded by the court. 56 Cases not provided for in Act Where an issue as to the admissibility of any evidence or the competence or compellability of any witness arises which is not provided for in this Act, the issue shall be determined according to the law applicable in similar cases before the Supreme Court of Judicature in England: Provided that nothing in this section shall give effect with Zimbabwe to any enactment passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom after the 1st June, 1927. — 27 —