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CHILD
CAREAND PROTECTION
( a )
make due enquiry as to the age of that person; and
(b)
for that purpose, shall take such evidence as may be
forthcoming at the hearing of the case.
(2)
An order or judgment of the court shall not be
invalidated by any subsequent proof that the person's age has
not been correctly stated to the court, and the age presumed or
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declared by the court to be the age of the person so brought
before it shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to be the
true age of that person.
(3)
Where it appears to the court that the person so
brought before it has attained the age of eighteen years, that
person shall, for the purposes of this Act, be dee:med to be an
adult.
(4) Where, in any charge or indictment for any offence
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under this Act or any of the offences mentioned in the Second
Schedule, except offences specified in subsection
(5)-
(a) it is alleged that the person by or in respect of whom
the offence was committed was a child or was under or
had attained any specified age; and
(b)
the person appears to the court to have been, at the date
of the commission of the alleged offence, a child or to
have been under or to have attained the specified age,
as the case may be,
the person shall for the purposes of this Act be presumed at that
date to have been a child or to have been under or to have
attained that age, as the case may be, unless the, contrary is
proved.
(5) The offences referred to in subsection (4) are offences
against the following sections of the Offences Against the
Person Act, section 45 (procuring defilement of girl under
eighteen), 48 (carnally knowing girl under twelve), '50 (carnally
knowing girl above twelve and under sixteen), 51 ((inducingor
encouraging defilement of girl on premises), 57 (abduction of
girl under sixteen), 58 (procurement), 60 (abduction with intent
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