THE AGE OF MAJORITY ACT

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CHAPTER 43
THE AGE OF MAJORITY ACT
[PRINCIPAL LEGISLATION]
Arrangement of Sections
Section Title
1. Short title.
2. Age of majority.
3. Saving.

AG.431
CHAPTER 43
THE AGE OF MAJORITY ACT
[PRINCIPAL LEGISLATION]
Arrangement of Sections
Section Title
1. Short title.
2. Age of majority.
3. Saving.

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1. This Act may be cited as the Age of Majority Act. 2. A 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.–(1) This Act shall not 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.

aw 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) 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. Short title
Age of majority
Saving
Act No. 55 of 1963
6th Sch. Cap. 33
CHAPTER 43
THE AGE OF MAJORITY ACT
An Act to prescribe the age of majority. [28th October, 1960]
Ord. No. 33 of 1960
Act No. 55 of 1963
[R.L. Cap. 431]