Section 339 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos

Section 339 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Provisions as to sentence of deportation. It provides as follows:

(1) If a person ordered to be deported is sentenced to any term of imprisonment, such sentence of imprisonment shall be served before the order of deportation is carried into effect.

(2) An order of deportation shall be expressed to be in force for a limited time or for an unlimited time and shall require the deported person to report himself to the nearest Administrative Officer or Police Officer at intervals of not less than thirty (30) days.

(3) An order of deportation shall be sufficient authority to all persons to whom it is directed or delivered for execution to receive and detain the person named in the order and to carry him to the place named.

(4) If a person leaves or attempts to leave the district or place to which he has been deported, while the order of deportation is still in force, without the written consent of the Minister of Internal Affairs which consent shall be given subject to any terms as to security for good behaviour or otherwise as to the Minister of Internal Affairs shall deem fit or wilfully neglects or refuses to report himself as ordered, such person is liable to imprisonment for six (6) months and to be again deported on a fresh warrant under the original order or under a new order.

(5) The provisions of this Law on deportation shall not apply to Nigerian Citizens.

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