Section 56 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos

Section 56 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about General authority to bring persons before courts. It provides as follows:

Every Court has authority to cause to be brought before it any person who is within the jurisdiction and is charged with an offence committed within the State, or which according to law may be dealt with as if the offence had been committed within the jurisdiction and to deal with such person according to law.