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Criminal Procedure (Northern States) Act, 1960 🇳🇬


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Criminal Procedure (Northern States) Act, 1960

  • Published in Official Gazette supplement
  • Commenced on 30 September 1960
  • [This is the version of this document at 30 September 1960.]
  1. [Repealed on 13 May 2015 by Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015]
An Act to make new provisions for the jurisdiction, powers, practice and procedure of the courts of the Northern State of Nigeria in respect of Federal offences, to continue certain inter-State arrangements provided for in the Criminal Procedure Act and for purposes ancillary to the matters aforesaid.

1. Short title

This Act may be cited as the Criminal Procedure (Northern States) Act.

2. Interpretation

In this Act unless the context otherwise requires-"Federal offence" means an offence contrary to the provisions of a Federal Act, and a reference to a Federal offence committed in any of the Northern States shall include an offence committed in such circumstances that the provisions of the Schedule to the Penal Code (Northern States) Federal Pro…

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