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97. (1) Where by any Ordinance the signature of the Governor or of any public officer is required to any certificate, authorization, consent, licence, permit or exemption, or any alteration, transfer or renewal thereof, addition thereto or endorsement thereon, or any copy of the same, and no fee for such signature is prescribed by law, there shall be payable for such signature such fee as the Governor may prescribe by notice in the Gazette.

(2) Where any Ordinance requires or authorizes the issue of any document by a public officer, such public officer may, subject to any directions of the Governor, issue a duplicate of such document, upon payment of such fee as may be prescribed by law or as the Governor may prescribe by notice in the Gazette if no fee is prescribed by law.

(3) Where any Ordinance requires or authorizes any alteration, transfer, or endorsement of or addition to any certificate, authorization, consent, licence, permit or exemption by a public officer, such fee shall be payable therefor as may be prescribed by law or as the Governor may prescribe by notice in the Gazette if no fee is prescribed by law.

(4) Where an extract of any document, book, record or instrument may be properly certified by a public officer as a true extract of such document, book, record or instrument, such fee shall be payable for the certifying of the extract by such officer as may be prescribed by law or as the Governor may prescribe by notice in the Gazette if no fee is prescribed by law. PART XIII.

98. A copy of the Gazette containing any Ordinance or any instrument, or of any copy of any Ordinance or any instrument, purporting to be printed by the Government Printer, shall be prima facie evidence in all courts and for all purposes whatsoever of the due making and tenor of such Ordinance or instrument, without any proof being given that such copy of the Gazette was so printed.

99. The Government Printer may, with the authority of the Governor, print copies of any Ordinance with all additions, omissions, substitutions and amendments effected by any amending Ordinances, and such copies shall be deemed to be authentic copies of the Ordinance so amended as at the date of such printing.

100. (1) Where any person, public officer, Government department or public body is required to do anything for which a fee is to be paid charge made under any Ordinance, such person, public officer, Government department or public body may decline to do that thing until the fee or charge is paid or, where the precise amount of the