SHERIFFS AND CIVIL PROCESS ACT

Section 7: Sheriff may command person to arrest felon

1945Section 7 of 112Federal Republic of Nigeria

The sheriff may command any person to arrest any person who has committed or is suspected of having committed a felony, and any person failing to obey such command shall on conviction be liable to a fine of N200 or to imprisonment for one year or to both such fine and such imprisonment.

Cite this section

Section 7, SHERIFFS AND CIVIL PROCESS ACT (1945).

https://repo.podus.ai/laws/sheriffs-and-civil-process-act/section/7/