AGE OF MAJORITY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 9 Short title and commencement.

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AGE OF MAJORITY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 9

Short title and commencement.

9. This Act may be cited as the Age of Majority Act (Northern Ireland) 1969
... Commencement ...

Schedule 1Amendments

1. The Regency Acts 1937 to 1953.

2. The Representation of the People Acts and any regulations, rules or other
instruments made thereunder, and section 7 of the
Parliamentary Elections Act 1695.

3. The Electoral Law Acts (Northern Ireland) 1962 and 1968 and any
regulations, rules or other instruments made thereunder and Article 12(4)(a)
of the Local Government (Adaptation of Enactments) Order 1898.

4. Section 18 of the Coroners Act (Northern Ireland) 1959 and any regulations,
rules or other instruments made thereunder.

1.(1) In this Schedule "the commencement date" means the date on which
section 1 comes into force.

(2) Section 1(5) shall apply for the purposes of this Schedule as it applies
for the purposes of that section.

2. Any order or directions in force immediately before the commencement date
by virtue of any rules of court or other statutory provision (including in
particular, section 99 of the County Courts Act (Northern Ireland) 1959)
relating to the control of money in any way recovered or awarded or adjudged,
ordered or agreed to be payable in respect of the claims of an infant, shall
have effect as if any reference therein to the infant's attaining the age of
twenty-one years were a reference to his attaining the age of eighteen years
or, in relation to a person who by virtue of section 1 attains full age on
the commencement date, to that date.

3.(1) Any order in force immediately before the commencement date

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

(b)otherwise providing for the custody of, or access to, any person,

(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 years.

4. Section 1 of this Act shall not prevent the making of an adoption order or
provisional adoption order under the Adoption Act (Northern Ireland) 1967 in
respect of a person who has attained the age of eighteen years, 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 section 1 of
this Act had not been enacted.

5.(1) Section 1 of this Act shall not affect section 32 of the Trustee Act
(Northern Ireland) 1958 in its application to any interest under an instrument
made before the commencement 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)(a) of the said
section 32 to pay income to the parent or guardian of any person who has
attained the age of eighteen years, 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.

6. 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, section 1 of this Act shall not affect the meaning of "infant" in
section 38 of the Administration of Estates Act (Northern Ireland) 1955 and
the words "twenty-one" in subsection (5) of the said section 38 shall have
effect as if that section had not been included in Schedule 1 to this Act.

7. The change, by virtue of section 1 of this Act, in the construction of
section 1 of the Accumulations Act 1892 (which lays down the permissible
period for the accumulation of income for the purchase of land 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.

8. The change, by virtue of section 1 of this Act, in the construction of
section 49(1) of the Statute of Limitations (Northern Ireland) 1958
(limitation in case of a person under disability) shall not affect the time
for bringing proceedings in respect of a cause of action which arose before
the commencement date.

9. Section 1 of this Act 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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AGE OF MAJORITY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 9