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Infants Amendment Act 2009

COOK ISLANDS

INFANTS AMENDMENT ACT 2009
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ANALYSIS

Title
1. Short Title
2. Interpretation

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2009, No. 5

An Act to amend the Infants Act 1908

(20 March 2009

BE IT ENACTED by the Parliament of the Cook Islands in Session assembled and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1. Short Title - This Act may be cited as the Infants Amendment Act 2009 and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Infants Act 1908 being in force in the Cook Islands by virtue of Section 630 of the Cook Islands Act 1915 (hereinafter referred to as "the principal Act").

2. Interpretation - The principal Act is amended by inserting after subsection (2) of Section 2 the following subsection -

"(3) The term "Infant" means a person under eighteen years of age."

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This Act is administered by the Ministry of Justice