Age of Legal Capacity (Scotland) Act 1991

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Where any person referred to in section 6(4)(b), 17(3), 18(3) or 18A(2) of the M1Prescription and Limitation (Scotland) Act 1973 as having been under legal disability by reason of nonage was of or over the age of 16 years but under the age of 18 years immediately before the commencement of this Act, any period prior to such commencement shall not be reckoned as, or as part of, the period of 5 years, or (as the case may be) 3 years, specified respectively in section 6, 17, 18 or 18A of that Act.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—

• “existing” means existing immediately before the commencement of this Act;

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• “transaction” means a transaction having legal effect, and includes—

  1. (a)

     any unilateral transaction;

  2. (b)

     the exercise of testamentary capacity;

  3. (c)

     the exercise of any power of appointment;

  4. (d)

     the giving by a person of any consent having legal effect;

  5. (e)

     the bringing or defending of, or the taking of any step in, civil proceedings;

  6. (f)

     acting as arbiter or trustee;

  7. (g)

     acting as an instrumentary witness.

In section 15, for the words “persons within the age of twenty-one years” substitute the words “or, being persons under legal disability by reason of nonage”; and for the words “come and be at the age of twenty-one years” substitute the words “cease to be under legal disability by reason of nonage or come and be”.

In section 27, for the words “infancy or” substitute the words “persons under legal disability by reason of nonage or of”.

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In section 70, for the word “infancy” substitute the words “legal disability by reason of nonage”.

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In section 18, for the words “an infant or infants, or a minor or minors” substitute the words “a person under legal disability by reason of nonage”.

In section 24, for the words “infants, minors” substitute the words “persons under legal disability by reason of nonage”.

In section 68, for the word “infant” substitute the words “person under legal disability by reason of nonage”.

In section 24, for the words “pupil, minor” wherever they occur substitute the words “person under legal disability by reason of nonage”.

In section 62, for the words “in nonage” substitute the words “under legal disability by reason of nonage”.

In section 119, for the words “of full age, or in pupillarity or minority, or although he should be subject to any legal incapacity” substitute the words “subject to any legal incapacity or not”.

In section 26 (definitions) after the definition of “colony” there shall be inserted—

“The expression “infant”, in relation to Scotland, means a person under legal disability by reason of nonage, and the expression “infancy” shall be construed accordingly:”

In section 13, for the words “in pupillarity or minority, or subject to any legal incapacity” substitute the words “subject to any legal disability by reason of nonage or otherwise”; and after the word “curators,” insert the word “guardians”.

In section 55(1), for the word “infancy” substitute the words “legal disability by reason of nonage”.

In section 2, in the definitions of “trust” and “trust deed”, after the word “curator” insert the word “guardian”, and, in the definition of “trustee”, for the words from “tutor” to “curator” substitute the words “tutor, curator, guardian (including a father or mother acting as guardian of a child under the age of 16 years)”.

In section 41(1), for the words from “in pupillarity” to “incapacity” substitute the words “subject to any legal disability by reason of nonage or otherwise”.

In section 1, in subsection (1)(a) after the word “who” insert the words “because of any legal disability”, and, in subsection (2), for the words “over the age of pupillarity” substitute the words “of or over the age of 16 years”.

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In section 43(10), for the words “tutor or curator” substitute the word “guardian”.

In section 14(5)(a), for the words from “of unsound” to “disability” substitute the words “under legal disability by reason of nonage or otherwise”.

In section 16(11)(c), for the words “tutor or curator” substitute the word “guardian”.

In section 18(4), for the words “tutor or curator of an infant” substitute the words “guardian of a child”.

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In section 37(2A), for the words “tutory, curatory” substitute the word “guardianship”.

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In section 7(1)(d), for the words “a minor” substitute the words “under legal disability by reason of nonage”.

In Schedule 9, in paragraph 3 for the words “tutory and curatory” substitute the words “ guardianship of children ”.

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In section 2(4)(c)(i), for the words “father or mother” substitute the words “parent or guardian”.

For section 4 substitute the following section—

“ Power of parent to appoint guardian.

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The parent of a child may appoint any person to be guardian of the child after his death, but any such appointment shall be of no effect unless—

(a)

the appointment is in writing and signed by the parent; and

(b)

the parent at the time of his death was guardian of the child or would have been such guardian if he had survived until after the birth of the child.”

In section 6(2), for the words “pupil child” substitute the words “child under the age of 16 years”; and for the word “tutor” substitute the word “guardian”.

In section 8, in paragraph (a) of the definition of “child” after the words “in relation to” insert the word “guardianship,” and in paragraph (d) for the words from “custody” to “curatory” substitute the words “guardianship, custody or access”; and in the definition of “parental rights” for the words “tutory, curatory” substitute the word “guardianship”.

In section 1(1)(b)(ix), for the words “tutory or curatory” substitute the word “guardianship”.

In section 16, in subsections (1) and (4) for the words “tutory or curatory” substitute the word “guardianship” and for the words “pupil or minor” substitute the word “child”; and in subsection (2) for the words “factor loco tutoris” substitute the words “judicial factor”.

In section 18(2), for the words “tutory or curatory of a pupil or minor” substitute the words “guardianship of a child”.

In section 35(4)(b), for the words “tutor or curator” substitute the word “guardian”.

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