Criminal Procedure (Corporal Punishment) Ordinance, 1960 🇳🇬

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Ordinance No. 30

Criminal Procedure (Corporal Punishment) Ordinance, 1960

  • Published in Official Gazette supplement 61 on 29 September 1960
  • Assented to on 16 September 1960
  • Commenced on 29 September 1960
  • [This is the version of this document from 29 September 1960.]
BE IT ENACTED by the Legislature of the Federation of Nigeria as follows-

1. Short title and application

This Ordinance may be cited as the Criminal Procedure (Corporal Punishment) Ordinance, 1960, and shall apply to Lagos.

2. Corporal punishment whipping modified

(1)Where in any written law enacted, or having effect as if enacted, by the Federal Legislature, reference is made to whipping in relation to the award of corporal punishment, such reference shall be rwad and construed as a reference to caning.
(2)For the avoidance of doubt, wherever in any such written law there is provision for the award of a sentence of whipping and a sentence of whipping is thereunder ordered, a light rod or cane or birch only shall be used in the execut…

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