Section 368 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos

Section 368 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Forfeiture of recognisance. It provides as follows:

(1) Where a person has, in pursuance of sections 365, 366 or 367, been admitted to bail in a State, by a Magistrate in that State, or where the person was admitted to bail by a Judge of the High Court of that State, and the Judge or Magistrate, is satisfied that the person has failed to comply with the conditions of the recognisance upon which he was so admitted to bail, that Magistrate or Judge may declare the recognisance to be forfeited.

(2) Where a recognisance is so declared to be forfeited, payment of any sum due under the recognisance by a person residing in the State in which the recognisance was declared to be forfeited may be enforced in the same manner as a recognisance entered into in that State in accordance with the relevant provisions of this Law.

(3) An amount recovered in pursuance of this section shall be transmitted to the principal officer of the Treasury of the State in which the original warrant was issued.

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