Part I DOMICILE
Minors and pupils
3 Age at which independent domicile can be acquired.
1
The time at which a person first becomes capable of having an independent domicile shall be when he attains the age of sixteen or marries under that age; and in the case of a person who immediately before 1st January 1974 was incapable of having an independent domicile, but had then attained the age of sixteen or been married, it shall be that date.
2
This section extends to England and Wales and Northern Ireland (but not to Scotland).