New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MINORS (PROPERTY AND CONTRACTS) ACT 1970 - SECT 30

30 Affirmation

(1) Where a person participates in a civil act while the person is a minor, the civil act may be affirmed:

(a) while the person remains a minor, on the person's behalf by order of a court having jurisdiction under this section,

(b) after the person attains the age of eighteen years, by the person, or

(c) after the person's death, by the person's personal representative.

(2) The court may affirm a civil act on behalf of a minor participant in the civil act under paragraph (a) of subsection (1) on application by the minor participant or by any other person interested in the civil act.

(3) Subject to section 36, the court shall not affirm a civil act on behalf of a minor participant in the civil act under paragraph (a) of subsection (1) unless it appears to the court that the affirmation is for the benefit of the minor participant.

(4) Where a civil act is affirmed pursuant to this section by or on behalf of a minor participant in the civil act, or by the personal representative of a deceased minor participant in the civil act, the civil act is presumptively binding on the minor participant.

(5) An affirmation of a civil act under this section by a minor participant in the civil act or by the personal representative of a deceased minor participant in the civil act:

(a) may be by words, written or spoken, or by conduct, and

(b) need not be communicated to any person.