Section 342 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos

Section 342 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Probation orders and conditions of recognisance. It provides as follows:

(1) A recognisance ordered to be entered into under sections 341 to 345 shall, if the Court so orders, contain a condition that the offender be under the supervision of such person or persons of either sex, called a probation officer, as may, with the consent of such probation officer, be named in the order during the period specified in the order, and an order requiring the insertion of such conditions in the recognisance, is in sections 341 to 345 referred to as a probation order.

(2) A recognisance under sections 341 to 345 shall contain such additional conditions with respect to residence, abstinence from intoxicating liquor and any other matters as the Court may, having regard to the particular circumstances of the case, consider necessary for preventing a repetition of the same offence or the commission of other offences.

(3) The Court, by which a probation order is made, shall furnish to the offender a notice in writing stating in simple terms the conditions he is required to observe.

[/membership]