Section 149 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos

Section 149 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Sense of words used in charge. It provides as follows:

(1) In every charge, words used in describing an offence shall be deemed to have been used in the sense attached to them respectively in the written law creating such offence.

(2) Figures and abbreviations may be used for expressing anything which is commonly expressed thereby.