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    "content": "“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; (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.” Hon. Members, I am not aware of any concern regarding the validity of the certificates received from the county assemblies. It is, therefore, evident that the draft Bill obtained the constitutional threshold for passage in the county assemblies and is thus properly before the House. Hon. Members, a secondary issue did arise from the submission of the copies of the Bills by the county assemblies with regard to the operative version of the Bill in light of reported circulation of different versions and errors in the Bill. On the issue of the errors, errors noted during the joint consideration of the Bill by the two Committees of the Houses of Parliament, I agree with the Committees’ findings that although Parliament may, in exercise of legislative power under Article 94 of the Constitution, take steps to correct noted errors, this may pave way for new substantive insertions that may ultimately affect the form and substance of the Bill. We may then run the risk of eventually overriding the principal intentions of the promoters of the Bill and, therefore, offending the whole idea of an amendment of the Constitution by popular initiative. In any case, the errors have been observed to be inadvertent and mostly typographical or cross- The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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