Section 207 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos

Section 207 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Age in relation to offences. It provides as follows:

Where in a charge for any offence, it is alleged that the person by or in respect of whom the offence was committed was a child or was under or above any specified age, and he appears to the Court to have been at the date of the commission of the alleged offence a child or to have been under or above the specified age, as the case may be, he shall for the purposes of this Law be presumed at that date to have been a child or to have been under or above that age, as the case may be, unless the contrary is proved.