Yes, the certificate held by the local register office is the original one and the one held by the GRO has been copied out (soon after the original was written), so the one held by the local register office should be the more accurate one.
But then it depends whether they (the local register office) send you a scan / photocopy of the original document or if they copy it out for you in which case they may introduce errors. Nowadays if you order from the GRO you will be almost certain to get a scan of their document rather than a copied out one. I don't know how likely this is from local register offices but maybe someone else will - or you could contact the local register office in question and ask them what they would be likely to send?
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