Section 6: Production of prisoners before courts, etc.

(1) Where the presence of a prisoner is required before a court, the court may issue an order addressed to the superintendent requiring the prisoner to be produced before the court in proper custody at the time and place specified in the order, and may by endorsement on the order require that person to be brought up again at any adjourned hearing.
(2) In subsection (1) of this section, "proper custody" means the custody of prison officers.
(3) If a prisoner charged with an offence is brought before a court under this section, the same procedure shall be followed with respect to the offence as would have been followed if he had been brought before the court on a warrant.
(4) The Comptroller-General, if he is satisfied that it is in the public interest so to do,upon receipt of a request or subpoena that the presence of a prisoner is required at any place in Nigeria, may by writing under his hand order the prisoner to be taken to that place; and a prisoner taken from a prison in pursuance of any such order shall be kept in such custody while outside the prison as the Comptroller-General may by writing under his hand direct and, so long as he is in that custody, shall be deemed to be in lawful custody.