R U L I N G
1. On 1st October 2014, the High Court (Ngenye-Macharia, J.) declared the Uasin Gishu County Finance Act of 2013 null and void for contravening Articles 1(1), 10(2)(a) and 196(1)(b) of the Kenya Constitution, 2010 as well as Section 87 of the County Governments Act 2012. Aggrieved by that decision, the Uasin Gishu County Government, the applicant, filed a notice of appeal on 8th December 2014, thus evincing its decision to appeal that judgment.
2. The filing of the notice of appeal on 8th December 2014 was out of the period of 14 days allowed by Rule 75(2) of the Court of Appeal Rules for preferring appeals to this Court. This application, brought, inter alia, under Rule 4 of the Court of Appeal Rules, seeks enlargement of time to deem that notice of appeal as having been filed with leave of this Court.
3. From the grounds stated on the face of the application and the averments in the affidavit of Peter Leley, the applicant’s County Secretary, sworn on 8th December 2014 in su…