Section 369 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos

Section 369 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Execution of distress warrants outside State of issue. It provides as follows:

(1) Where a Court of a State has in accordance with the relevant provisions of this Law issued a warrant of distress, a Magistrate of another State, being a State in which any money or goods of the person against whom the warrant is issued are or are supposed to be, shall, on being satisfied that the warrant was issued by the Court, make an endorsement on the warrant in the form or to the effect of
the form in the form authorizing its execution in that other State.

(2) A warrant so endorsed may be executed by the same persons, in the same manner and to the same extent as a warrant of distress issued by the Court by which it was endorsed.

(3) The amount recovered under a warrant endorsed, after deduction of the proper costs and charges of the execution and any sum payable to any person upon whose goods the distress was levied, shall be transmitted to the Court by which the original warrant was issued.

[/membership]