Age of Legal Capacity (Scotland) Act 1991
1 Age of legal capacity.
2 Exceptions to general rule.
3 Setting aside of transactions.
4 Ratification by court of proposed transaction.
5 Guardians of persons under 16.
6 Attainment of age.
7 Acquisition of domicile.
8 Transitional provision.
9 Interpretation.
10 Amendments and repeals.
11 Short title, commencement and extent.
SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1 AMENDMENT OF ENACTMENTS
Defence Act 1842 (c.94)
1In section 15, for the words “persons within the age...
2In section 27, for the words “infancy or” substitute the...
Lands Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1845 (c.19)
3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6In section 70, for the word “infancy” substitute the words...
Judicial Factors Act 1849 (c.51)
7. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
9. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
10. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
11. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
12. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
13. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
14. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
15. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Improvement of Land Act 1864 (c.114)
16In section 18, for the words “an infant or infants,...
17In section 24, for the words “infants, minors” substitute the...
18In section 68, for the word “infant” substitute the words...
Titles to Land Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1868 (c.101)
19In section 24, for the words “pupil, minor” wherever they...
20In section 62, for the words “in nonage” substitute the...
21In section 119, for the words “of full age, or...
Colonial Stock Act 1877 (c.59)
22In section 26 (definitions) after the definition of “colony” there...
Heritable Securities (Scotland) Act 1894 (c.44)
23In section 13, for the words “in pupillarity or minority,...
Merchant Shipping Act 1894 (c.60)
24In section 55(1), for the word “infancy” substitute the words...
Trusts (Scotland) Act 1921 (c.58)
25In section 2, in the definitions of “trust” and “trust...
Conveyancing (Scotland) Act 1924 (c.27)
26In section 41(1), for the words from “in pupillarity” to...
Trusts (Scotland) Act 1961 (c.57)
27In section 1, in subsection (1)(a) after the word “who”...
Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965 (c.49)
28In section 20(3)(c), for “18” substitute “16”.
29In section 43(10), for the words “tutor or curator” substitute...
National Loans Act 1968 (c.13)
30In section 14(5)(a), for the words from “of unsound” to...
Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 (c.49)
31In section 16(11)(c), for the words “tutor or curator” substitute...
32In section 18(4), for the words “tutor or curator of...
Taxes Management Act 1970 (c.9)
33In section 73, for the words “parent, guardian or tutor”...
34In section 118(1), in the appropriate alphabetical position, insert the...
Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1971 (c.58)
35In section 37(2A), for the words “tutory, curatory” substitute the...
Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978 (c.28)
36In section 65(1), in paragraph (b) of the definition of...
Matrimonial Homes (Family Protection) (Scotland) Act 1981 (c.59)
37In section 7(1)(d), for the words “a minor” substitute the...
Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 (c.27)
38In Schedule 9, in paragraph 3 for the words “tutory...
Companies Act 1985 (c.6)
39In sections 203(1), 327(2)(b) and 328(8), for the words “pupil...
Family Law (Scotland) Act 1985 (c.37)
40In section 2(4)(c)(i), for the words “father or mother” substitute...
Law Reform (Parent and Child) (Scotland) Act 1986 (c.9)
41For section 4 substitute the following section— Power of parent...
42In section 6(2), for the words “pupil child” substitute the...
43In section 8, in paragraph (a) of the definition of...
Family Law Act 1986 (c.55)
44In section 1(1)(b)(ix), for the words “tutory or curatory” substitute...
45In section 16, in subsections (1) and (4) for the...
46In section 18(2), for the words “tutory or curatory of...
47In section 35(4)(b), for the words “tutor or curator” substitute...
Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c.1)
48. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
SCHEDULE 2 REPEALS

Age of Legal Capacity (Scotland) Act 1991

1991 c. 50

An Act to make provision in the law of Scotland as to the legal capacity of persons under the age of 18 years to enter into transactions, as to the setting aside and ratification by the court of transactions entered into by such persons and as to guardians of persons under the age of 16 years; to make provision in the law of Scotland relating to the time and date at which a person shall be taken to attain a particular age; and for connected purposes.

I1C1Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Annotations:
Commencement Information
I1

Act wholly in force at 25. 9. 1991 see s. 11(2)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1

Act excluded (19.2.1996) by 1995 c. 6, s. 2(3); S.I. 1996/125, art. 2 (with art. 3)