Section 29 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos

Section 29 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Court may direct particulars of security to be taken on execution of warrant. It provides as follows:

(1) A Court, on issuing a warrant for the arrest of a person in respect of any matter other than an offence punishable with death, may if it thinks fit by endorsement on the warrant, direct that the person named in the warrant be released on arrest on his entering into such a recognisance for his appearance as may be required in the endorsement.

(2) The endorsement shall specify the—
(a) number of sureties, if any;
(b) amount in which the sureties and the persons named in the warrant are respectively to be bound, or are to provide cash security;

(c) Court before which the person arrested is to attend; and
(d) time at which he is to attend and an undertaking to appear at a subsequent time as may be directed by any Court before which he may appear.

(3) Where an endorsement is made, the officer in charge of any Police Station to which an arrested person named in the warrant is brought, shall discharge him upon his entering into a recognisance, with or without sureties approved by that officer, in accordance with the endorsement, stipulating the condition for his appearance before the Court and at the time and place named in the recognisance.

(4) Where security is taken under this section, the officer who takes the recognisance shall cause it to be forwarded to the Court before which the person named in the recognisance is bound to appear.

(5) The provisions of subsections (3) and (4) shall not have effect with respect to a warrant executed outside the State.

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