Section 30 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos

Section 30 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Procedure on arrest of persons outside Division or District of court issuing warrant. It provides as follows:

(1) Where a warrant of arrest is executed in the State outside the Division or District of the Court by which it was issued, the person arrested shall, unless security is taken under section 29, be taken before the Court within the Division or District in which the arrest was made.

(2) The Court shall, if the person arrested, upon such inquiry as the Court deems necessary, appears to be the person intended to be arrested by the Court which issued the warrant, direct his removal in custody to such Court.

(3) Where the person has been arrested in respect of a matter other than an offence punishable with death—
(a) and is ready and willing to give bail to the satisfaction of the Court within the Division or District of which he was arrested, or

(b) if a direction had been endorsed under section 29 on the warrant and such person is ready and willing to give the security required by such direction, the Court shall take bail or security, as the case may be, and shall forward the recognisance, if such be entered into, to the Court which issued the warrant.

(4) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to prevent a Police Officer from taking security under section 17.

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