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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