Section 77: Proving Official Documents in Uganda
77.Proof of other official documents
(1)The following public documents may be proved as follows—
(a)Acts, orders or notifications of the Government or of the administration of a district—
(i)by the records of the departments, certified by the heads of those departments respectively;
(ii)by any document purporting to be printed by order of the Government or of the administration of a district; or
(iii)by published laws or abstracts or by copies purporting to be printed by order of the Government or of the administration of a district;
(b)the acts of the executive or the proceedings of the legislature of a foreign country, by journals published by their authority, or commonly received in that country as such, or by a copy certified under the seal of the country or sovereign, or by a recognition of the acts or proceedings thereof in some of that country or sovereign by the laws of Uganda;
(c)the proceedings of a municipal body in Uganda, by a copy of the proceedings certified by the legal keeper of the proceedings, or by a printed book purporting to be published by the authority of that body;
(d)public documents of any other class in a foreign country, by the original, or by a copy certified by the legal keeper of the document, with a certificate under the seal of a notary public, or of a foreign service officer, that the copy is duly certified by the officer having the legal custody of the original, and upon proof of the character of the document according to the law of the foreign country.
(2)The Documentary Evidence Acts, 1868 and 1882 of the United Kingdom, shall apply to Uganda, and the provisions of those Acts shall apply to all proclamations, orders and regulations issued by the government of a country of the Commonwealth as they apply to the proclamations, orders and regulations referred to in those Acts.
(3)Section 27 of the British Nationality Act, 1948, of the United Kingdom shall apply in Uganda.
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You have the right to prove official documents in court using specific, accepted methods. Government acts, orders, or notifications can be proved by c...
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