Do you know what you can or cannot do when you were young? Or mum and dad are the law?
The following information are the rights and restrictions for the teenagers in the UK :)
Interesting, but wonder if everybody is aware of it? There was once I saw a boy (maybe age 9 or 10) smoking in the High Street at Erdington. I was quite mad, disgust the habit of smoking, and don't understand how can a 9 year-old pick up smoking??
Age-restricted Goods and Services
All these items are subject to age-restrictions, and supplying any of them to someone below the legal age is a criminal offense which can lead to fines or prosecution for the trader involved.
| Product |
Legal Age |
| Knives |
16 Years |
| Liqueur chocolates (hmm.. interesting) |
16 Years |
| Cigarettes & Tobacco |
16 Years |
| Lottery Tickets |
16 Years |
| Petrol |
16 Years |
| Scratch Cards |
16 Years |
| Party Poppers & Caps |
16 Years |
| Pay adult price for bus or train tickets |
16 Years |
Pay prescription charges
(not if at school or on income support) |
16 Years |
| Air Guns & Pellets |
17 Years |
| Alcohol |
18 Years |
| Adult Magazines |
18 Years |
| Fireworks (M'sian kids used to able to buy fireworks.. long time ago) |
18 Years |
| Solvents |
18 Years |
| Tattooing |
18 Years |
| Bet |
18 Years |
| Butane Gas Cigarette Lighter Refills |
18 Years |
| Videos and Cinema |
12, 15, & 18 Years |
Rights and Responsibilities
|
Age |
Rights and Responsibilities |
|
10 |
- A child can be convicted of a criminal offense if they know they were doing wrong
|
| 12 |
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| 13 |
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14 |
- A person is fully responsible for any crime they commit and the police can take fingerprints
- Work part-time with the teenager's school's consent
- Go into a pub with an adult (but the teenager can't drink alcohol)
- Be convicted of a crime
- Be convicted of rape (if a boy) and illegal sex with a girl under sixteen
|
|
16 |
- Claim social security benefits in their own right
- Drink some alcohol with a meal in a pub (but not at the bar)
- Get married (with parents' permission)
- Join a trade union
- Leave home to live independently. (Scottish law allows young people to leave home legally at sixteen years of age. In England and Wales sixteen year olds can leave home only with parental consent.)
- Leave school
- Take your driving test (if disabled)
- The age of consent for legal sex (including homosexual consent in England, Scotland and Wales; age of consent for homosexual sex in Northern Ireland is 17.)
- Work full-time
|
|
17 |
- A person can drive a car and pilot an aeroplane
- Go into a betting shop (but not bet)
- Be tried before an adult court and sent to prison or fined up to £2,000
|
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18 |
- Leave home or marry without parental consent
- Vote
- Drink alcohol in a pub
- Own a house or land
- Sign contracts
- Apply for loans and credit cards
- Make a will
- Do jury service
- Donate blood or organs
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|
21 |
- A person can adopt a child
- Stand for election for parliament or local government
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source: http://www.anotherurl.com/library/teenagers.htm
