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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 1999 (NO. 63 OF 1999) - SECT 386 Presumption of age

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 1999 (NO. 63 OF 1999) - SECT 386

Presumption of age

    If—

        (a)     a person is charged with an offence against this Act in relation to someone who is alleged in the charge to be under a stated age (the supposed child or young person ); and

        (b)     the supposed child or young person appears to the court to be under that age;

there is a rebuttable presumption that the supposed child or young person is under that age.