Women’s Charter 1961 · s 3A

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s 3AReckoning of age

In reckoning the age of a person for the purposes of this Act —

(a)

the person is taken to have attained a particular age expressed in years on the corresponding anniversary of his or her birth (ignoring any fraction of a day);

(b)

a reference to the anniversary of the person’s birth in paragraph (a) is a reference to the day on which the anniversary occurs; and

(c)

if the person was born on 29 February in any year, then, in any subsequent year that is not a leap year, the anniversary of his or her birth is taken to be 28 February in that subsequent year.IllustrationA person (N) is born on 21 July 2021. N is taken to attain 18 years of age on the first moment of 21 July 2039 (regardless of the time of the day at which N is born).