THE AGE OF MAJORITY ACT

This section gives the Act its short title: the Age of Majority Act.

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Jurisdiction: Tanzania
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Citation: THE AGE OF MAJORITY ACT
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Language: en
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This section gives the Act its short title: the Age of Majority Act. A person domiciled in Tanzania reaches full age at the start of the eighteenth anniversary of birth and is no longer under minority disability. This section preserves certain rules on legal capacity and says a minor with an earlier guardian appointment reaches full age at the beginning of the twenty-first anniversary of birth.

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AI-assisted research summary: This section gives the Act its short title: the Age of Majority Act.

1. This Act may be cited as the Age of Majority Act. Age of majority
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AI-assisted research summary: A person domiciled in Tanzania reaches full age at the start of the eighteenth anniversary of birth and is no longer under minority disability.

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. Saving Act No. 55 of 1963 6th Sch.
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AI-assisted research summary: This section preserves certain rules on legal capacity and says a minor with an earlier guardian appointment reaches full age at the beginning of the twenty-first anniversary of birth.

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. (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. Cap. 33 432 ©2025 Government of Tanzania. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or distributed without permission of OAG.

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