Section 306 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos

Section 306 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Steps to be taken by the Registrar. It provides as follows:

The registrar of a Court that sentenced a person to death shall, as soon as practicable after sentence has been pronounced—

(a) hand two copies of the certificate issued by the Judge under the provisions of section 309 to the prison officer responsible for the safe custody of the sentenced person, one of such copies shall be retained by the prison officer and the other handed to the Superintendent or other officer in charge of the prison in which the person is to be confined;

(b) transmit to the Sheriff one copy of the said certificate; and

(c) file one copy of the said certificate with the record of proceedings in the case.

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