Section 361 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos

Section 361 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Service of summons issued on information, etc. It provides as follows:

(1) This section applies to a summons (other than a summons to compel the attendance of a witness) which is issued under this Law on information or complaint.

(2) A summons to which this section applies which is issued in one State may be served on the person to whom it is addressed in another State.

(3) Service under this section may, subject to the Rules of Court in force under this Law, be effected in the same way as it could be effected in the State in which the summons was issued.

(4) Service so effected shall have the same force and effect as if it had been served in the State in which the summons was issued, and if the person on whom service has been effected fails to appear before the Court and at the time and place specified in the summons and it appears to the Court that service was effected a sufficient time before the time so specified, may be taken as if service had been
effected in the State in which the summons was issued.

(5) The provisions of sections 92 and 93 shall apply in relation to a summons served outside the State in which it was issued as they apply to such summons served within the State in which it was issued but as if the reference in section 93 to ‘‘the Court which issued the summons’’ were a reference to the Court of a Magistrate of the State in which it was served.

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