Section 51 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos

Section 51 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Discharge of sureties. It provides as follows:

(1) Any surety for the peaceable conduct or good behaviour of another person may at any time apply to a Magistrate to discharge any recognisance executed under any of the preceding sections within the District to which the Magistrate is assigned.

(2) On the application being made, the Magistrate shall, if satisfied that there is good reason for the application issue summons or warrant, as he thinks fit, requiring the person for whom such surety is bound to appear or to be brought before him.

(3) When such person appears or is brought before the Magistrate, the Magistrate after hearing such person may discharge the recognisance and in such event order the person to give, for the unexpired portion of the term of such recognisance, fresh security of the same description as the original security.

Every such order shall for the purposes of sections 46, 47, 48 and 49 be deemed to be an order under section 43.

[/membership]