CIVIL EVIDENCE ACT [Chapter 8:01] as at 1st May 2007 outside Zimbabwe and is intended to enable any person to obtain, directly or indirectly, any sum of money, whether in Zimbabwean or foreign currency. (2) Where there appears upon a negotiable instrument any endorsement that purports to have been made by a person or institution purporting to carry on financial business outside Zimbabwe, it shall be presumed, unless the contrary is proved, that the endorsement was made by that person or institution outside Zimbabwe and, if any date is specified in or in connection with the endorsement, that the endorsement was made on that date. 16 Documents from designated countries (1) In this section— “designated country” means a country or territory declared to be a designated country in terms of subsection (4); [For list of designated countries, see Civil Evidence (Designated Countries) Order, 1997, published in Statutory Instrument 186/1997] “document” includes an extract from a document. (2) Subject to subsection (3), any document purporting to have been prepared, attested, certified, compiled or executed in a designated country shall be admissible in evidence as if it had been prepared, attested, certified, compiled or executed, as the case may be, in Zimbabwe. (3) Where a document is admissible in evidence only if it has been prepared. attested, certified, compiled or executed by a particular person or by a person holding a particular office, possessing a particular qualification, performing a particular function or engaged in a particular activity, a similar document emanating from a designated country shall not be admissible in terms of subsection (2) unless it appears to have been prepared, attested, certified, compiled or executed, as the case may be, by an equivalent person in the designated country concerned. (4) The Minister may, by order in a statutory instrument— (a) declare any country or territory to be a designated country for the purposes of this section; (b) declare that any person or class of persons in a designated country is equivalent to any person or class of persons in Zimbabwe, whether such equivalence relates to his or their office, qualification, function or activity or otherwise: Provided that an omission by the Minister to make a declaration in terms of this paragraph shall not preclude a court from determining for itself whether or not any person in a designated country is equivalent to a person in Zimbabwe. 17 Translations of documents (1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), where it is necessary to produce in evidence a translation of a document into the English language, the translation shall be admissible on its production by any person entitled to produce the original document, if the translation is accompanied by a document which purports to be an affidavit made by a person who states in it that— (a) he undertook the translation; and (b) the translation is a true and accurate translation of the document to the best of his ability; — 11 —