Section 345 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos

Section 345 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Variation of terms and conditions of probation. It provides as follows:

The Court before which any person is bound by a recognisance under sections 341 to 344 to appear for conviction and sentence—

(a) may, at any time if it appears to it upon the application of the probation officer that it is expedient that the terms or conditions of the recognisance should be varied, summon the person bound by the recognisance to appear before it and if he fails to show cause why such variation should not be made vary the terms of the recognisance by extending or diminishing the duration, however, that it shall not exceed three years from the date of the original order, or by altering the conditions or by inserting additional conditions; or

(b) may on application being made by the probation officer, and on being satisfied that the conduct of the person bound by the recognisance has been such as to make it unnecessary that he be no longer under supervision, discharge the recognisance.

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