AGE OF MAJORITY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969

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AGE OF MAJORITY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 1



1.(1) As from the date on which this section comes into force a person shall
attain full age on attaining the age of eighteen years instead of on attaining
the age of twenty-one years; and a person shall attain full age on that date
if he has then already attained the age of eighteen years but not the age of
twenty-one years.

(2) Subject to subsection (4), 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 section 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 the statutory provisions specified in Schedule 1, for any reference to
the age of twenty-one years there shall be substituted a reference to the age
of eighteen years; but the amendment by this subsection of the provisions
specified in Part II of that Schedule shall be without prejudice to any power
of amending or revoking those provisions.

(4) This section does not affect the construction of any such expression as is
referred to in subsection (2) in any of the statutory provisions described in
Schedule 2.

(5) Notwithstanding any rule of law, a will or codicil executed before the
date on which this section comes into force shall not be treated for the
purposes of this section 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.

(6) The Governor may by Order in Council amend any statutory provision (not
being a statutory provision described in Schedule 2), passed on or before the
date on which this section comes into force, by substituting for any reference
therein to the age of twenty-one years, a reference to the age of eighteen
years; but the Governor shall not be advised to make any such order unless a
draft thereof has been laid before Parliament and approved by a resolution of
each House of Parliament.

(7) The transitional provisions and savings contained in Schedule 3 shall have
effect in relation to this section.

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AGE OF MAJORITY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 1