Section 329 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos

Section 329 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Part payment reduces period of imprisonment in proportion. It provides as follows:

Where a part only of the amount ordered to be recovered by distress is so recovered, the period of imprisonment ordered to be suffered in default of recovery of the amount imposed shall be reduced accordingly and shall bear the same proportion to the full period as the amount recovered bears to the total amount ordered to be recovered, the warrant of commitment shall be drawn up accordingly and after such committal the provisions of section 326 shall apply.