Age of Majority
(Jersey) Law 1999
Official
Consolidated Version
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Age of Majority
(Jersey) Law 1999
A LAW to reduce the age of majority and to make
provision incidental upon and supplemental thereto
Commencement [see endnotes]
1 Reduction
in the age of majority
(1) As
from 1st November 1999, a person shall attain full age on attaining the
age of 18 years instead of on attaining the age of 20 years.
(2) A
person who, before 1st November 1999, has attained the age of 18 years,
but not the age of 20 years, shall attain full age on 1st
November 1999.
2 Construction
of enactments and instruments
(1) Article 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”, the “age of majority”, the “age of
legal capacity”, “infant”, “minor” and similar
expressions (including such expressions rendered in the French language)
in –
(a) any
enactment, whether passed or made before, on or after 1st November 1999;
and
(b) any
deed, will or other instrument of whatever nature (not being an enactment) made
on or after 1st November 1999.
(2) Notwithstanding
any rule of law, a will or codicil executed before 1st November 1999 shall
not be treated for the purposes of this Article as made on or after 1st
November 1999 by reason only that the will or codicil is confirmed by a
codicil executed on or after that date.
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4 Marriage
of person under the age of majority
For the avoidance of
doubt, it is declared that the marriage of a person who has not attained the age
of majority does not confer full legal capacity on the person.
5 Citation
This Law may be cited as
the Age of Majority (Jersey) Law 1999.