New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MINORS (PROPERTY AND CONTRACTS) ACT 1970 - SECT 26

26 Capacity by order of Supreme Court

(1) The Supreme Court, on application by a minor, may, by order:

(a) grant to the minor capacity to participate in any civil act or in any description of civil acts or in all civil acts, and

(b) rescind or vary an order under paragraph (a).

(2) The Court may make an order under subsection (1) on such terms and conditions as the Court thinks fit.

(3) The Court shall not make an order under this section unless it appears to the Court that the order is for the benefit of the minor.

(4) A civil act in which a minor participates is, if authorised by a grant of capacity under this section, presumptively binding on the minor.

(5) An order of rescission or variation under paragraph (b) of subsection (1) does not affect the validity of a civil act in which the minor has participated before the making of the order of rescission or variation.