Presumption and determination of age.

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Chapter V PROCEDURE OF COMPETENT AUTHORITIES GENERALLY AND APPEALS AND REVISIONS FROM ORDERS OF SUCH COURTS

Statutory text

(1) Whenever any person is brought before a competent authority under any of the provisions of this Act as a child the competent authority shall make due inquiry as to the age of that person and after taking such evidence as may be necessary, record a finding whether the person is a child or not stating his age as nearly as may be. The age so found by the competent authority shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to be the true age of such person.
(2) No order of a competent authority shall be deemed to have become invalid merely by any subsequent proof that the person in respect of whom the order has been made is not a child.

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