Age of Majority Act 1972 (WA)

Western Australia Age of Majority Act 1972 Reprinted under the Reprints Act 1984 as at 22 August 2003

Western Australia Age of Majority Act 1972 Contents 1. Short title 1 2. Commencement 1 3. Interpretation 1 4. Attainment of a particular age 2 5. Persons of age of 18 years or more to have full legal capacity 2 Notes Compilation table 5 Defined terms Reprinted under the Reprints Act 1984 as at 22 August 2003

Western Australia Age of Majority Act 1972 An Act to amend the law relating to the age of majority; to make certain consequential amendments to several Acts; to repeal the Housing Advances (Contracts with Infants) Act 1968; and for incidental and other purposes 2.

1. Short title This Act may cited as the Age of Majority Act 1972 1.

2. Commencement This Act shall come into operation on a date to be fixed by proclamation 1.

3. Interpretation In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears — commencing day means the date fixed by proclamation under section 2 to be the date on which this Act comes into operation; enactment means — (a) an Act or a provision of an Act; and (b) an Imperial Act that applies in the State or a provision of such an Imperial Act, and includes a regulation, rule, local law, by‑law, order in Council, proclamation, notice or other like document made or issued in the exercise of a power conferred by an Act, or by an Imperial Act, or by such a provision; instrument means any written document of whatsoever nature, not being — (a) an enactment; or (b) a law of the Commonwealth or of a State other than this State, or any document made or having effect under such a law; laws of the State does not include any law of the Commonwealth or any document made or having effect under such a law. [Section 3 amended: No. 14 of 1996 s. 4.]