Section 5: Nigerian courts to have regard to sentences of visiting forces' service courts

Where a person who has been convicted by a service court of a country to which this section applies in the exercise of the powers mentioned in section 2 (1) of this Act is convicted by a Nigerian court for a different crime, but it appears to that court that the conviction by the service court was wholly or partly in respect of acts or omissions in respect of which he is convicted by the Nigerian court, the Nigerian court shall have regard to the sentence of the service court.