CRIMINAL PROCEDURE AND EVIDENCE ACT (a) the condition, efficiency, capability, design, dimensions or mass of any vehicle or part or accessory thereof; or (b) any damage alleged to have been caused to any vehicle or part or accessory thereof; or (c) the mass of any load alleged to have been carried on or in any vehicle; a document purporting to be an affidavit made by any person who in that affidavit states that he is or was an inspecting officer as defined in the Road Traffic Act [Chapter 13:11] and in the performance of his official duties in that capacity he ascertained such fact by examining, testing, measuring or weighing such vehicle, part, accessory or load, shall, on its mere production in those proceedings by any person, but subject to subsections (11) and (12), be prima facie proof of that fact. (5) In any criminal proceedings in which the physical condition or identity of a deceased person or dead body while such person or dead body was in or at a hospital, nursing-home, ambulance or mortuary, is relevant to the issue, a document purporting to be an affidavit made by a person who in that affidavit states that he is or was employed at or in connection with the hospital, nursing-home, ambulance or mortuary and that in the performance of his official duties there or in connection therewith he observed the physical characteristics of the deceased person or dead body described in the affidavit, or that while the deceased person or dead body was under his care, such person or dead body sustained the injuries or wounds described in the affidavit or sustained no injuries or wounds, or that he identified, pointed out or handed over the deceased person or dead body to another person or left the deceased person or dead body in the care of another person, or that the deceased person or dead body was identified, pointed out or handed over to him or left in his care by another person, shall, on its mere production in those proceedings by any person, but subject to subsections (11) and (12), be prima facie proof of the facts so stated. (6) In any criminal proceedings in which the identity of a person since deceased or of the body of a deceased person is relevant to the issue, a document purporting to be an affidavit made by a person who in that affidavit states that he knew the deceased person in his lifetime and that he identified the person or dead body to another person shall, on its mere production in those proceedings by any person, but subject to subsections (11) and (12), be prima facie proof of the facts so stated. (7) In any criminal proceedings in which the receipt, custody, packing, delivery or dispatch of any document, finger-print or palm-print, article of clothing, specimen, limb or organ or any object of whatever nature is relevant to the issue, a document purporting to be an affidavit made by a person who in that affidavit states that in the performance of his duties he received from, or delivered or dispatched to, a person, institute, Ministry, department or laboratory mentioned in the affidavit the object described in the affidavit or packed or marked in a manner so described, or that during the period mentioned in the affidavit he had the custody, in the manner so mentioned, of the object described in the affidavit or packed or marked in the manner so described, as the case may be, shall, on its mere production in those proceedings by any person, but subject to subsections (11) to (12), be prima facie proof of the facts so stated. (8) In any criminal proceedings in which it is relevant to prove that the details set out in any— (a) consignment note executed for the purpose of the transport of any goods by the National Railways of Zimbabwe or the Air Zimbabwe Corporation or any other person who carries on the business within Zimbabwe of transporting goods; or (b) report executed by an employee of a person referred to in paragraph (a) revealing a discrepancy between the details relating to the goods dispatched on a consignment note referred to in that paragraph and the goods actually present on arrival at the destination specified in the consignment note; are correct, such details may, subject to subsections (11) and (12), be proved prima facie by the production by any person of a document, purporting to be an affidavit made by the person who executed the consignment note or report, in which it is stated that the details set out in the 104