Section 296 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos
Section 296 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Restitution and disposition of property found on person arrested. It provides as follows:
Where, on the arrest of a person charged with an offence, any property, other than that used in the commission of the offence, is taken from him, the Court before which he is charged may order—
(a) that the property or a part of it be restored to the person who appears to the Court to be entitled to it, and, if he be the person charged, that it be restored either to him or to such other person as he may direct; or
(b) that the property or a part of it be applied to the payment of any costs or compensation directed to be paid by the person charged.
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