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Section 1(3).

SCHEDULE 1E+W Statutory Provisions Amended by Substituting 18 for 21 Years

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1The text of ss. 2(1), 19(2), Sch. 1 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and, except as specified, does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991

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c. 18.The Settled Land Act 1925.Section 102(5).Management of land during minority.
c. 19.The Trustee Act 1925.Section 31(1)(ii), (2)(i)(a) and (b).Power to apply income for maintenance and to accumulate surplus income during a minority.
c. 20.The Law of Property Act 1925.Section 134(1).Restriction on executory limitations
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c. 46.The Hypnotism Act 1952.Section 3.Persons under 21 not to be hypnotised at public entertainment.
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c. 2.The Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Act 1963.Section 22(1) and (3).Offence of sending betting advertisements to persons under 21.
c. 12.The Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1965.Section 20.Persons under 21 but above 16 eligible as members of society but not of committee etc.

F9Part IIE+W Rules, Regulations Etc.

Textual Amendments

F9Sch. 1 Pt.II, except the entry relating to the Government Stock Regulations 1965, repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt.VIII.

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Section 1(4).

SCHEDULE 2E+W Statutory Provisions Unaffected by Section 1

1E+WThe Regency Acts 1937 to 1953.

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Section 1(4).

SCHEDULE 3E+W Transitional Provisions and Savings

InterpretationE+W

1(1)In this Schedule “the principal section ” means section 1 of this Act and “the commencement date ” means the date on which that section comes into force.E+W

(2)Subsection (7) of the principal section shall apply for the purposes of this Schedule as it applies for the purposes of that section.

Funds in courtE+W

2E+WAny order or directions in force immediately before the commencement date by virtue of—

(a)any rules of court or other statutory provision (including, in particular, section 174 of the M1County Courts Act 1959) relating to the control of money recovered by or otherwise payable to an infant in any proceedings; or

(b)section 19 of the M2Administration of Justice Act 1965 (control of money recovered by widow in fatal accident proceedings which are also brought for the benefit of an infant),

shall have effect as if any reference therein to the infant’s attaining the age of twenty-one were a reference to his attaining the age of eighteen or, in relation to a person who by virtue of the principal section attains full age on the commencement date, to that date.

Marginal Citations

Wardship and custody ordersE+W

3(1)Any order in force immediately before the commencement date—E+W

(a)making a person a ward of court; or

(b)under the M3M4Guardianship of Infants Acts 1886 and 1925, or under the M5Matrimonial Causes Act 1965 or any enactment repealed by that Act, for the custody of, or access to, any person,

which is expressed to continue in force until the person who is the subject of the order attains the age of twenty-one, or any age between eighteen and twenty-one, shall have effect as if the reference to his attaining that age were a reference to his attaining the age of eighteen or, in relation to a person who by virtue of the principal section attains full age on the commencement date, to that date.

(2)This paragraph is without prejudice to so much of any order as makes provision for the maintenance or education of a person after he has attained the age of eighteen.

Marginal Citations

Adoption ordersE+W

4E+WThe principal section shall not prevent the making of an adoption order or provisional adoption order under the M6Adoption Act 1958 in respect of a person who has attained the age of eighteen if the application for the order was made before the commencement date, and in relation to any such case that Act shall have effect as if the principal section had not been enacted.

Marginal Citations

Power of trustees to apply income for maintenance of minorE+W

5(1)The principal section shall not affect section 31 of the M7Trustee Act 1925—E+W

(a)in its application to any interest under an instrument made before the commencement date; or

(b)in its application, by virtue of section 47(1)(ii) of the Administration of M8Estates Act 1925, to the estate of an intestate (within the meaning of that Act) dying before that date.

(2)In any case in which (whether by virtue of this paragraph or paragraph 9 of this Schedule) trustees have power under subsection (1)(i) of the said section 31 to pay income to the parent or guardian of any person who has attained the age of eighteen, or to apply it for or towards the maintenance, education or benefit of any such person, they shall also have power to pay it to that person himself.

Marginal Citations

Personal representatives’ powers during minority of beneficiaryE+W

6E+WThe principal section shall not affect the meaning of “minority ” in sections 33(3) and 39(1) of the Administration of Estates Act 1925 in the case of a beneficiary whose interest arises under a will or codicil made before the commencement date or on the death before that date of an intestate (within the meaning of that Act).

Accumulation periodsE+W

7E+WThe change, by virtue of the principal section, in the construction of—

(a)sections 164 to 166 of the M9Law of Property Act 1925;

(b)section 13(1) of the M10Perpetuities and Accumulations Act 1964,

(which lay down permissible periods for the accumulation of income under settlements and other dispositions) shall not invalidate any direction for accumulation in a settlement or other disposition made by a deed, will or other instrument which was made before the commencement date.

Marginal Citations

Limitation of actionsE+W

8E+WThe change, by virtue of the principal section, in the construction of section 31(2) of the M11Limitation Act 1939 (limitation in case of person under disability) shall not affect the time for bringing proceedings in respect of a cause of action which arose before the commencement date.

Marginal Citations

Statutory provisions incorporated in deeds, wills, etc.E+W

9E+WThe principal section shall not affect the construction of any statutory provision where it is incorporated in and has effect as part of any deed, will or other instrument the construction of which is not affected by that section.

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