Section 121 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos

Section 121 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Persons before whom recognisance may be executed. It provides as follows:

When in respect of any recognisance the Court has fixed the amount in which the sureties, if any, are to be bound, the recognisance need not be entered into before the said Court, but may be entered into by the parties before any other Court, or before any Registrar, or before any superior Police Officer or officer in charge of a Police Station, or where any of the parties is in a prison before the superintendent or other person in charge of such prison, and all the consequences of Law shall ensue and the provisions of this Law with respect to recognisances before a Court shall apply as if the recognisance had been entered into before the Court.