Chapter:	225	Title:	REFORMATORY SCHOOLS ORDINANCE	Gazette Number:	L.N. 109 of 2003
Section:	37	Heading:	Order not to be invalidated by subsequent proof of age	Version Date:	01/07/2003

Where a person charged with an offence is brought before a court and it appears to the court, after considering any available evidence as to his age, that he is above the age of 10 and under the age of 16 years an order or judgment of the court shall not be invalidated by any subsequent proof that the age of that person has not been correctly stated or presumed or declared by the court, and the age presumed or declared by the court to be the age of the person so brought before it shall, for the purposes of this Ordinance, be deemed to be the true age of that person; and where it appears to the court, after considering any available evidence as to his age, that the person so brought before it is of the age of 16 years or upwards, that person shall for the purposes of this Ordinance be deemed not to be a youthful offender.