CHAPTER
6
MINORS |
ARRANGEMENT OF
SECTIONS |
SECTION |
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Reduction of age of majority from 21 to 18. |
Time at which a person attains a particular age. |
SCHEDULE - Statutory Provisions Unaffected by Section 2. |
CHAPTER 6 |
MINORS |
An Act to
amend the law relating to the Age of Majority, to persons who have not attained
that age and to the time when a particular age is attained, and for connected
purposes. | 27 of 1976 |
[Commencement 29
December, 1976] |
1. This Act may be cited as the Minors Act. | Short title. |
2. (1) As from the date of the commencement of this Act a
person shall attain full age on attaining the age of eighteen instead of on
attaining the age of twenty-one; and a person shall attain full age on that
date if he has then already attained the age of eighteen but not the age of
twenty-one. | Reduction of age of majority from 21 to 18. |
(2) Subsection (1)
applies for the purposes of any rule of law, and, in the absence of a
definition or of any indication of a contrary intention, for the construction
of "full age", "infant", "infancy",
"minor", "minority" and similar expressions in- |
(a) any
statutory provision, whether passed or made before, on or after the date on
which this Act comes into force; and |
(b) any deed,
will or other instrument of whatever nature (not being a statutory provision)
made on or after that date. |
(3) In any
statutory provision where infancy or minority is defined, whether expressly or
by necessary implication, by reference to the age of twenty-one years there
shall be substituted a reference to the age of eighteen years. |
(4)
Notwithstanding any rule of law, a will or codicil executed before the date on
which this Act comes into force shall not be treated for the purposes of this
Act as made on or after that date by reason only that the will or codicil is
confirmed by a codicil executed on or after that date. |
(5) This section
does not affect the construction or definition of any such expression as is
referred to in subsection (2) or (3) in any of the statutory provisions
described in the Schedule. |
(6) In this
section "statutory provision" means any enactment (including, except
where the context otherwise requires, this Act) any order, rule, regulation,
bye-law, or other instrument made in the exercise of a power conferred by any
enactment. |
3. (1) The time at which a person attains a particular
age expressed in years shall be the commencement of the relevant anniversary of
the date of his birth. | Time at which a person attains a particular age. |
(2) This section
applies only where the relevant anniversary falls on a date after that on which
this Act comes into force, and, in relation to any enactment, deed, will or
other instrument, has effect subject to any provision therein. |
SCHEDULE (Section 2(5)) |
STATUTORY
PROVISIONS UNAFFECTED BY SECTION 2 |
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Chapter
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Short Title
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Section
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Subject Matter
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Ch. 205
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Police Act
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s. 85
proviso paragraph (a)
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Appointment of
district constables
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Ch. 251
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Land Surveyors Act
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s. 11(1)(a)
s. 11(2)(a)
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Qualification for
registration as a land surveyor
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Ch. 9
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Public Disclosure
Act
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s. 2
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Definition of child
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