CAP. 199 Kenya Defence Forces Kenya Defence Forces [Rev. 2012] (2) A document purporting to be a copy of the attestation paper signed by any person and to be certified to be a true copy by a person stated in the certificate properly to have the custody of the attestation paper shall be evidence of the enlistment of the person attested. (3) The attestation paper purporting to be signed by a person on enlistment shall be evidence of the person haring given the answers to questions that the person is therein recorded as having given. (4) A letter, return or other document stating that a person— (a) was or was not serving at any particular time, or during any particular period, in the Defence Forces or in any particular service of the Defence Forces or part thereof, or was discharged therefrom at or before any particular time; (b) held or did not hold at any particular time any particular rank or appointment in any particular service of the Defence Forces, or had at or before any particular time been attached, posted or transferred to the Defence Forces or any particular service of the Defence Forces or part thereof, or at any particular time or during any particular period was or was not serving or held or did not hold any rank or appointment in any particular country or place; or (c) was or was not at any particular time authorized to use or wear any particular decoration, badge, wound stripe or emblem, shall, if purporting to be issued by the President, the Chief of the Kenya Defence Forces or the Service Commander, or by a person authorized in writing by any of them, be evidence of the matters stated in the document. (5) A record made in any service book or other prescribed document, being a record made under this Act or otherwise under service duty, and purporting to be signed by the commanding officer or by any person whose duty it was to make the record, shall be evidence of the facts stated therein, and a document purporting to be a copy of any such record (including the signature thereto) and to be certified to be a true copy by a person stated in the certificate properly to have the custody of the service book or other prescribed document shall be evidence of the record. (6) A document purporting to be issued by order of the President, the Chief of the Kenya Defence Forces or the Service Commander and to contain instructions or orders given or made by the President, the Chief of the Kenya Defence Forces or the Service Commander shall be evidence of the giving of the instructions or making of the orders and of their contents. (7) A certificate purporting to be signed by the President or the Chief of the Kenya Defence Forces, or by a person authorised in writing by either of them, and stating— (a) that a decoration of a description specified in or annexed to the certificate is a service decoration; or (b) that a badge, wound stripe or emblem of a description specified in or annexed to the certificate is one supplied or authorised by the President or the Chief of the Kenya Defence Forces, shall be evidence of the matters stated in the certificate. [Issue 1] K7-94