ADMINISTRATION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE (AMENDMENT) LAW, 2021 OF LAGOS STATE

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ADMINISTRATION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE LAW, CH. A3, LAWS OF LAGOS STATE, 2015 (AMENDMENT) LAW, 2021

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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

1.     Amendment to the Principal Law

2.     Amendment to Section 4

3.     Amendment to Section 6

4.     Amendment to Section 9

5.     Creation of a New Section 9A

6.     Amendment to Section 10

7.     Creation of a New Section 17

8.     Amendment to Section 76

9.     Amendment to Section 77

10.    Amendment to Section 161

11.    Amendment to Section 181

12.    Amendment to Section 200

13.    Amendment to Section 232

14.    Amendment to Section 235

15.    Creation of a new Section 283

16.    Creation of a New Section 298

17.    Creation of a New Section 300

18.    Amendment to Section 347

19.    Creation of a New Section 370

20.    Creation of a new Section 371

21.    Creation of a New Section 372

22.    Creation of a New Section 373

23.    Creation of a New Section 374

24.    Creation of New Sections 387

25.    Amendment to Section 372

26.    Remembering of the Principal Law

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ASSENTED TO AT IKEJA THIS 30TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 2021.

ADMINISTRATION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE LAW OF LAGOS STATE (LAW NO. 14)

[ADMINISTRATION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE LAW, CHAPTER A3, LAWS OF LAGOS STATE, 2015 (AMENDMENT) LAW, 2021]

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A Law to amend the Administration of Criminal Justice Law, Ch. 43, Laws of Lagos State, 2015

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[Commencement]                                       [30^th September, 2021)

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THE LAGOS STATE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY enacts as follows:

1.     The Administration of Criminal Justice Repeal and Re-enactment Law (referred to in this Law as the “Principal Law” is amended as follows.

2.     Section 4 of the Principal Law is deleted and replaced as follows-

        “4. (1)   A person shall not be arrested in lieu of any other person in a criminal matter.

        (2)    The provisions of subsection (1) of this section shall not apply to sureties.

        (3)    Where a person is arrested in place of another, the Court shall upon all application on notice before it, order the immediate release of such person, where it finds that the person ought not to have been arrested.        

(4)    A person or law enforcement officer who arrest in contravention of subsection (1) of this section commits an offence and is liable for misconduct.”

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