Section 206 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos

Section 206 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Presumption and determination of age. It provides as follows:

Where a person is before any Court and it appears to the Court that such person is a child or an adult, the Court shall make due inquiry as to the age of that person and for that purpose may take such evidence as shall be forthcoming at the time, or at the time to which the inquiry shall be adjourned but an order or judgment of the Court shall not be invalidated by any subsequent proof that the age of that person has not been correctly stated to the Court, and the age presumed or declared by the Court to be the age of that person shall for the purposes of this Law be deemed to be the true age of that person.