A record purporting to have been made or kept in the ordinary course of the carrying on of the business of a financial exchange or the business of a member, or of a recognised clearing house, or the business of a person approved in terms of section 5, or a copy of or an extract from such record certified to be correct by the public prosecutor, shall on its mere production by the public prosecutor in any criminal proceedings under this Act, any other law or the common law against the person who carries or carried on the business in question or any other person, be admissible in evidence and be prima facie proof of the facts contained in such record, copy or extract.

[Section 30 substituted by section 23 of Act 55 of 1995]