Section 242 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos

Section 242 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Power to take evidence of persons seriously ill. It provides as follows:

Whenever it appears to the Court that any person who is seriously ill or hurt that there is a possibility he may not recover, is able and willing to give material evidence relating to any offence and it shall not be practicable to take the evidence in accordance with the provisions of this Law, the Judge or Magistrate shall take in writing the statement on oath or affirmation of such person and subscribe the same and certify that it contains accurately the whole of the statement made by such person, and he shall add a statement of his reason for taking the statement, the date and place when and where the same was taken, and shall preserve such statement and file it for record.