Section 124 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos

Section 124 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Discharge from custody. It provides as follows:

(1) Where the entering into a recognisance is a condition for the release of a person, that person shall be released as soon as the recognisance has been entered into and if he is in prison or police custody, the Court shall issue an order of release to the Superintendent of the Prison or other place of detention and such officer on receipt of the order shall release him.

(2) Nothing in this section or in any other section relating to bail shall be deemed to require the release of any person liable to be detained for some matter other than that in respect of which the recognisance was entered into or to which the bail relates.