Correctional Services Act, 2019 🇳🇬

Nigeria

Correctional Services Act, 2019

Assented to on 31 July 2019
Commenced on 31 July 2019
[This is the version of this document from 31 July 2019.]

An Act to repeal the Prisons Act Cap. P29 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 and enact the Nigerian Correctional Service Act to make provision for the administration of prisons and non-custodial measures in Nigeria; and for related matters,ENACTED by the National Assembly of the Federal Republic of Nigeria:

1. Establishment of Nigerian Correctional Service

(1)There is established for the Federation, the Nigerian Correctional Service (in this Act referred to as "the Correctional Service") to provide custodial and non-custodial services

(2)The Correctional Service shall consist of:

(a)Custodial Service; and

(b)Non-Custodial Service.

(3)There shall be for the administration of the Correctional Service:

(a)a Controller-General;

(b)a minimum of eight Deputy Controllers-General, one of whom is responsible for the Non-Custodial Service; and

(c)such other sub…

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