Age of Majority Act

Chapter 43

Age of Majority Act

Citation: Chapter 43
Date: 31 July 2002
Language: English
Type: Act

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Tanzania

Age of Majority Act

Chapter 43

Published in Tanzania Government Gazette
Commenced on 28 October 1960
[This is the version of this document at 31 July 2002.]
[Note: This legislation was revised and consolidated as at 31 July 2002 and 30 November 2019 by the Attorney General's Office, in compliance with the Laws Revision Act No. 7 of 1994, the Revised Laws and Annual Revision Act (Chapter 356 (R.L.)), and the Interpretation of Laws and General Clauses Act No. 30 of 1972. All subsequent amendments have been researched and applied by Laws.Africa for TANZLII.]

[R.L. Cap. 431; Act No. 55 of 1963]An Act to prescribe the age of majority.

1. Short title

This Act may be cited as the Age of Majority Act.

2. Age of majority

Every person domiciled in Tanzania shall attain full age and cease to be under any disability of minority at the beginning of the eighteenth anniversary of the day on which he was born.

3. Saving

(1)Nothing in this Act shall affect—

(a)the capacity of any person to marry;

(b)the religion or religious rites and usages of any class of persons in Tanzania;

(c)the provisions of any Act which expressly prescribe any age as conferring capacity for any purpose;

(d)the provisions of any law when the law applicable is customary law or any rule of customary law which prescribes any age or condition as conferring capacity for any purpose.

(2)Notwithstanding the provisions of section 2, a minor in respect of whose person or property or both a guardian (other than a guardian for a suit within the meaning of Order XXXI of the First Schedule to the Civil Procedure Code ¹) has been appointed prior to the coming into operation of this Act shall attain full age at the beginning of the twenty-first anniversary of the day on which he was born.¹Cap. 33

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History of this document

31 July 2002 this version

Consolidation

28 October 1960

Commenced

Cited documents 1

Act 1

1.	Civil Procedure Code	84 citations

Documents citing this one 14

Judgment 10

1.	Ibrahim Kusaga vs Emanuel Mweta [1984] TZHC 8 (6 April 1984)	3 citations
2.	Haji Shomari vs Zainabu Rajabu (Civil Appeal No. 91 of 2001) [2005] TZCA 128 (31 March 2005)	1 citation
3.	Amos Katikiro Kero vs Waryoba Wambura (Land Appeal No. 15795 of 2024) [2024] TZHC 8096 (19 September 2024)
4.	Godfrey Selendo & Others vs Chairman Industrial Court of Tanzania & Another (Misc. Civil Application 38 of 2000) [2002] TZHC 2043 (26 September 2002)
5.	Henry Kibuka vs Magdallena Kagaruki (PC Civil Appeal No. 191 of 1975) [1975] TZHC 383 (1 January 1975)
6.	Juma S/O Kerichi vs Republic (PC Criminal Appeal No. 14 of 1984) [1985] TZHC 357 (30 April 1985)
7.	Ministry of Education and Vocational Training Zanzibar vs Mindset Techies (T) Ltd (Misc. Commercial Cause No. 02247 of 2024) [2024] TZHCComD 283 (8 November 2024)
8.	Nyido S/O Mwandiki @ Ngegu vs The Republic (Misc. Criminal Application No. 000028444 of 2024) [2024] TZHC 9523 (13 November 2024)
9.	Swabaha Mohamed Shosi vs Saburia Mohamed Shosi (Civil Appeal No. 98 of 2018) [2020] TZCA 329 (19 June 2020)
10.	Tanzanite Construction Co. Ltd vs Rashmear Developer Ltd (Misc. Commercial Cause No. 4217 of 2024) [2024] TZHCComD 169 (2 August 2024)

Act 1

1.	Immigration Act, 1995	21 citations

Gazette 1

1.	Tanzania Government Gazette dated 1967-11-24 number 50

Government Notice 1

1.	Immigration (Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order, 1997

Law Reform Report 1

1.	Customary Laws which have been Identified as Repugnant to the Constitution, Bill of Rights and Natural Justice