Section 78: Court Presumption of Genuineness for Certified Copies
78.Presumption as to genuineness of certified copies
(1)The court shall presume every document purporting to be a certificate, certified copy or other document, which is by law declared to be admissible as evidence of any particular fact, and which purports to be duly certified by any officer in Uganda, to be genuine if the document is substantially in the form and purports to be executed in the manner directed by law in that behalf.
(2)The court shall also presume that any officer by whom any such document purports to be signed or certified held, when he or she signed it, the official character which he or she claims in that paper.
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When you present a certified copy or certificate in court, the judge will automatically assume it is genuine if it looks like the correct form and was...
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