Evidence Act

83. Certified documents.

Edition: 2023-12-11 · In force

83. Certified documents.

(1)The court shall presume to be genuine every document purporting to be a certificate, certified copy or other document which is—

(a)declared by law to be admissible as evidence of any particular fact; and

(b)substantially in the form, and purporting to be executed in the manner, directed by law in that behalf; and

(c)purporting to be duly certified by a public officer.

(2)The court shall also presume that any officer by whom any such document purports to be signed or certified held, when he signed it, the official character which he claims in such document.

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Source: Kenya Law