# Domicile and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1973, Section 3: Age at which independent domicile can be acquired.


(1) The time at which a person first becomes capable of having an independent domicile shall be when he attains the age of sixteen or marries under that age; and in the case of a person who immediately before 1st January 1974 was incapable of having an independent domicile, but had then attained the age of sixteen or been married, it shall be that date.
(2) This section extends to England and Wales and Northern Ireland (but not to Scotland).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1973/45/section/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/domicile-and-matrimonial-proceedings-act-1973/section-3
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