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Suppression of Robbery Act, 1967 🇳🇬

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Suppression of Robbery Act, 1967

  • Published in Official Gazette supplement 6 on 2 February 1967
  • Assented to on 30 January 1967
  • Commenced on 30 January 1967
  • [This is the version of this document from 2 February 1967.]
THE FEDERAL MILITARY GOVERNMENT hereby decrees as follows:-

1. Amendment of sections 402 and 403 of the Criminal Code, Cap. 42

In the Criminal Code, in its application to the Federal territory—
(a)in section 402 (which deals with punishments for robbery), for the words “imprisonment for fourteen years”; and
(b)in section 403 (which deals with punishments for attempted robbery), for the words “imprisonmentfor seven years”,
there shall be substituted the words “imprisonment for life, with or without whipping".

2. Additional powers to arrest, etc.

(1)Any person-
(a)found by an armed patrol committing any offence under section 402 or 403 of the Criminal Code; or
(b)reasonably suspected by an armed patrol of committing or having committed any such offence,
may be arrested, and shall be liable…

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