Section 226 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos

Section 226 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Procedure where person of unsound mind is reported fit for discharge. It provides as follows:

(1) If the medical officer of a prison or the medical officer attached to a mental health asylum in which a person is confined under section 219 or section 223 certifies that such person in his judgment may be discharged without the risk of his doing injury to himself or to any other person, upon the receipt of report from the Judge, the Governor may order him to be discharged or to be detained in custody or in prison or to be transferred to a mental health asylum if he has not already been sent to such a mental health asylum.

(2) Where the Governor orders the person referred to in subsection (1) of this section to be transferred to a mental health asylum, he may require the appropriate Director of Medical Services to appoint two medical officers to report on the state of mind of such person and upon any other facts the Governor may require and on receipt of such report the Governor may order his discharge or detention as he deems fit.