3: Age of majority of persons domiciled in Pakistan

Subject as aforesaid, [every minor of whose person or property or both a guardian, other than a guardian for a suit within the meaning of [Order XXXII of the First Schedule to the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (Act V of 1908)], has been or shall be appointed or declared by any Court of Justice before the minor has attained the age of eighteen years, and every minor of whose property the superintendence has been or shall be assumed by any Court of Wards before the minor has attained that age] shall, notwithstanding anything contained in. the [Succession Act, 1925 (XXXIX of 1925)] or in any other enactment, be deemed to have attained his majority when he shall have completed his age of twenty-one years and not before. Subject as aforesaid, every other person domiciled [Pakistan] shall be deemed to have attained his majority when he shall have completed his age of eighteen years and not before.

Effective date: 1875-03-02

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