its mere production in those proceedings by any person, but subject to subse ctions (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 consignment note or report are correct in relation to the goods described in the consignment note or report. (9) In any criminal proceedings in which it is relevant to prove that any goods were delivered to the National Railways of Zimbabwe or the Air Zimbabwe Corporation or any other person who carries on the business within Zimbabwe of transporting goods for transport by that person, a document purporting to be an affidavit made by a person who in that affidavit states that, on a date specified in the affidavit, he delivered the goods or caused the goods to be delivered to the National Railways of Zimbabwe, the Air Zimbabwe Corporation or such other pe rson, as the case may be, or caused such goods to be delivered to that person for transport by that 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. (10) In any criminal proceedings in which it is relevant to prove— (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 any person or thing under an enactment; or (b) where a person or thing has been registered or licensed or a permit, certificate or authority has been issued in respect of any person or thing under an enactment, any particulars of or connected with the registration, licence, permit, certificate or authority; or (c) that anything relating to the registration, licence, permit, certificate or authority referred to in paragraph (b), including the cancellation or suspension thereof, has been done; a document purporting to be an affidavit made by a person who in that affidavit states that— (i) he is a person upon whom the enactment in question confers the power or imposes the duty to do any thing referred to in paragraph (a); and (ii) in that capacity, he has the custody and control of the records relating to anything referred to in paragraph (a) done by himself or any other person in the exercise of that power or duty; and (iii) he has examined the records referred to in subparagraph (ii) and ascertained— A. that any person or thing is or is not registered or licensed or that a permit, certificate or authority has or has not been issued; or B. any particular referred to in paragraph (b); or C. that anything referred to in paragraph (c) has been done; 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 ascertained. (11) An affidavit referred to in this section shall not be admissible unless the prosecutor or the accused, as the case may be, has received three days’ notice of its intended production or consents to its production. (12) The court in which any affidavit referred to in this section is produced in evidence may, of its own motion or at the request of the prosecutor or of the accused, cause the person who made the affidavit or any other person whose evidence the court considers to be necessary to give oral evidence in the proceedings in question in relation to any statement contained in the affidavit or may cause written interrogatories to be submitted to such person for reply, and such interrogatories or any reply thereto purporting to be a reply from such person shall, on their mere production in those proceedings by any person, be admissible in evidence. (13) Nothing in this section shall be construed as affecting any provision of any enactment under which any certificate or other document is made admissible in evidence, and this section shall be deemed to be additional to, and not in substitution of, any such provision. 279 Admissibility of photographs, plans and reports (1) A medical practitioner who has prepared a report after his examination of any person or body may read and put in such report at any trial and such report so read and put in shall, subject to all just exceptions, be admissible in evidence in any court. [Subsection amended by section 28 of Act 9 of 2006.] (2) A photograph or plan relating any matter which is relevant to the issue in any proceedings shall be admissible in evidence at any stage of such proceedings subject to the conditions that—