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(1)In any trial or other proceeding under this Act, a previous conviction or acquittal may be proved, in addition to any other mode provided by any law for the time being in force—
(a)by an extract, certified under the hand of the officer having the custody of the records of the court in which the conviction or acquittal was had, to be a copy of the sentence or order; or
(b)in case of a conviction, either by a certificate signed by the officer in charge of the prison in which the punishment or any part of it was inflicted, or by production of the warrant of commitment under which the punishment was suffered.
(2)A certificate in the form prescribed by the Minister given under the hand of an officer appointed by the Minister for that purpose, who shall have compared the fingerprints of an accused person with the fingerprints of a person previously convicted or acquitted, shall be prima facie evidence of all facts set forth in it provided it is produced by the person who took the fingerprints of the accused.
(3)A previous conviction in any place outside Uganda may be proved by the production of a certificate purporting to be given under the hand of a police officer in the country where the conviction was had, containing a copy of the sentence or order and the fingerprints or photographs of the fingerprints of the person so convicted, together with evidence that the fingerprints of the person so convicted are those of the accused person.
(4)A certificate referred to in subsection (3) shall be prima facie evidence of all facts set forth in the certificate without proof that the officer purporting to sign the certificate did in fact sign it and was empowered so to do.
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