Determination of Age- Introduction and Medico-legal Importance

The Factory Act prohibits the employment of children below 14 years and declares 15 to 18 years as belonging to the adolescent group. Adolescents require fitness certificate prior to employment in a job. 

Ans. 18 years

Ans. 18 years

Prohibition of Child Marriage Act(2006), and it came into effect on 1 November 2007; states that a girl in India can’t marry before the age of 18, and a boy before 21.

Ans. is ‘c’ i.e., 21 years

A person attains majority on completion of 18 years. However if a person is under the guardianship of court, he attains majority after 21 years (Indian Majority Act 1875).

Ans. is ‘c’ i.e., < 18 years

Juvenile Justice Act 2000

• Juvenile justice (care and protection of children Act, 2000 (now Amendment Act 2006) covers :-

1. Juveniles in conflict → child who is alleged to have committed an offence.
2. Children in need of care and protection → children who are neglected, abused, or abandoned.

• This act defines a juvenile / child as a person who has not completed the age of 18 years.

Ans. is ‘d’ i.e., 210 days

Viability means the physical ability of a foetus to lead a separate existence after birth apart from its mother, by virtue of a certain degree of development. A child is viable after 210 days (7 months) of intrauterine life, and in some cases after 180 days (6 months) but in most of these cases fetus is immature.

Full term mature infant show :-

• Length (crown-heel length) 48-52 cm, head circumference 30-35 cm.
• Ossification center at lower end of femur (appears at the end of 9 months or just before birth) and Ossification center of cuboid and upper tibia may also present (Note : some ossification centers are also present, but they appear before the attainment of viability so their presence does not have importance. These are (i) Clavicle, mandible, ribs vertebra → at the end of 2^nd month, (ii) Calcaneum(os calcis) and manubrium sterni → at the end of 5^th month and (iii) Sternum → at the end of 6 month). Other center which appears at attainment of viability is primary ossificaion center of talus which appears at the end of 7^th month.

Ans. is ‘b’ i.e., 7 years

Ans.:D.)18 years.

India’s legal age of consent and marriage is 18 years.

Ans. is ‘c’ i.e., 4.5 year

Ans. is ‘c’ i.e., 375 IPC

Rape

• According to Section 375 IPC, a man is said to commit rape, if he has sexual intercourse with a women :‑

1. Against her will
2. Without her consent
3. With her consent if she is

• Less than 16 years of age.
• With his own wife less than 15 years of age.
• Intoxicated or has unsound mind so that she is unable to understand the conseqences.
• Consent is obtained by unlawful means, i.e. fears of death or hurt to herself or to some one whom she is interested.
• Impersonation , i.e. when the man knows he is not her husband and her consent is given because she believes that he is another man to whom she is lawfully married.

Ans. is ‘c’ i.e., Male below 18 years