Section 109 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos

Section 109 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Person in charge of closed place to allow access. It provides as follows:

(1) Whenever any building or other thing or place liable to search is closed, any person residing in or being in charge of such building, thing or place shall, on demand by a Police Officer or other person executing the search warrant, allow him free access and afford all reasonable facilities for a search in it.

(2) If access into such building, thing or place cannot be so obtained, the Police Officer or other person executing the search warrant may proceed in the manner prescribed by sections 7 and 8 of this Law.

(3) When any person in or about such building, thing or place is reasonably suspected of concealing on his person any article for which search should be made, such person may be searched. If the person to be searched is a woman she shall, if practicable, be searched by another woman and may be taken to a Police Station for that purpose.

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