34 Evidence Cap 80 [2009] prints, photographic enlargements and any other annex referred to therein, and shall be evidence of all facts stated therein. (2) The court may presume that the signature to any such certificate is genuine. (3) When a certificate is received in evidence under this section the court may, if it thinks fit, summon and examine the person who gave it. Part IV - Public Documents Distinction between public and private documents. 79. (1). The following documents are public documents (a) documents forming the acts or records of the acts (i) of the sovereign authority; or (ii) of official bodies and tribunals; or (iii) of public officers, legislative, judicial or executive, whether of Kenya or of any other country; (b) public records kept in Kenya of private documents. (2) All documents other than public documents are private. Certified copies of public documents. 80. (1) Every public officer having the custody of a public document which any person has a right to inspect shall give that person on demand a copy of it on payment of the legal fees therefor, together with a certificate written at the foot of such copy that it is a true copy of such document or part thereof, as the case may be, and such certificate shall be dated and subscribed by such officer with his name and his official title, and shall be sealed whenever such officer is authorized by law to make use of a seal, and such copies so certified shall be called certified copies. (2) Any officer who by the ordinary course of official duty is authorized to deliver copies of public documents shall be deemed to have the custody of such documents within the meaning of this section. Proof by certified copies. 81. Certified copies of public documents may be produced in proof of the contents of the documents or parts of the documents of which they purport to be copies. www.kenyalaw.org