Section 62 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos

Section 62 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about A defendant to be sent in certain cases to another Magistrate. It provides as follows:

A Magistrate in this and the subsequent sections referred to as the remitting Magistrate, before whom a defendant who is within the Magisterial District of such Magistrate and is charged with having committed an offence within the Magisterial District of another Magistrate is brought shall, unless he is authorised to proceed in the case, send the defendant to the Court within the Magisterial District in which the offence was committed, or require him to give security for his surrender to such last mentioned Court, to answer the charge and to be dealt with according to Law.