Section 313 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos

Section 313 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Power to order detention. It provides as follows:

(1) Where the Court has power to pass a sentence of imprisonment, the Court, may order that the offender be detained within the precincts of the Court or at any Police Station, till such sentence is passed.

(2) Before making an order of detention under this section, the Court shall take into consideration the distance between the place of detention and the offender’s abode, if his abode is known or ascertainable, the Court, shall not make any such order of detention under this section as will deprive the offender of a reasonable opportunity of returning to his abode on the day on which such order of detention is made.