Act Number: 9

Act Name: The Majority Act, 1875

Year: 1875

Enactment Date: 1875-03-02

Long Title: An Act to amend the law respecting the age of majority.

Ministry: Ministry of Law and Justice

Department: Legislative Department

Section 3: Age of majority of persons domiciled in India.
        1[3. Age of majority of persons domiciled in India.(1) Every person domiciled in India shall attain the age of majority on his completing the age of eighteen years and not before.
         (2) In computing the age of any person, the day on which he was born is to be included as a whole day and he shall be deemed to have attained majority at the beginning of the eighteenth anniversary of that day.]
Notes:
1. Subs. by Act 33 of 1999, s. 4, for sections 3 and 4 (w.e.f. 16-12-1999).
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