Age of Majority Act Amendment Act 1973 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

AGE OF MAJORITY.

No. 33 of 1973.

AN ACT to amend the Age of Majority Act, 1972.

[Assented to 9th October, 1973.1

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Age of short title

Majority Act Amendment Act, 1973.

(2) In this Act the Age of Majority Act, 1972 is ,YIPA.):46

referred to as the principal Act.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act

may be cited as the Age of Majority Act, 1972-1973.

No. 33.] Age of Majority. [1972.

Amendment

to s. 5. 2. Section 5 of the principal Act is amended by

(Persons of	adding after subsection (9) the following subsec-
age of
eighteen	tions
years or
more to
have full

legal	(10) Nothing in this Act or in any amend- ment made by section 5 of this Act affects the time for bringing proceedings in respect of a cause of action that arose before the commenc- ing day.
capacity.)
(11) Subsection (10) of this section is deemed to have come into operation on the 1st November, 1972. .