Section 310 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos
Section 310 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Where a pardon or reprieve is granted. It provides as follows:
(1) Where the Governor decides that the sentence should be commuted or that the offender should be otherwise pardoned or reprieved, he shall issue an order, a copy of which shall be sent to the Superintendent or other officer in charge of the prison in which the offender is confined, and another copy of it shall be sent to the Sheriff, directing that the execution should not proceed and that the offender be imprisoned in accordance with the recommendation, or that the offender be released, subject to such conditions, if any, as shall be specified.
(2) The Sheriff and the Superintendent or other officer in charge of the prison in which the offender is confined shall comply with and give effect to every order issued under the provisions of subsection (1).
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