So summer is almost over and now it is finally time to start packing up and getting ready to leave for college. I hope that I can stay close to the friends and family that I care so much about now and that I can make many new friends along the way as well. I just turned 18 and I think it would be fun making a list of all the things you can do when you turn certain ages so please help me think of different things… At 5:
You have to go to school or be receiving alternative education
You can see a U or PG film at the cinema
At 7:
You can draw money from the post office or savings account
At 10:
You can be convicted of a criminal offence
At 12:
You can buy a pet animal
At 13:
You can have a part time job, with some restrictions
At 14:
You can enter a pub, but you can’t buy or drink alcohol there
A boy can be convicted of rape, assault with the intent to commit rape and unlawful sex with a girl if she is under 16.
You are responsible for wearing a seat belt.
At 15:
You can posses a shotgun certificate
You can see a 15 or PG rated film without parental consent
At 16:
You can buy premium bonds
You can seel scrap metal
You can buy cigarettes or tobacco
You can join a trade union
You can leave school
You can join the armed forces but you cannot go into a war zone
You can choose your own doctor
You can claim social security benefit
You can leave home with your parents consent
You can work full time
You can get married with one parents consent
You have have heterosexual and homosexual sex
You can hold a licence to drive a moped of up to 50 ccs
You can apply for a passport
You can live independently, subject to certain conditions being met
You can get married with your parents or guardians consent
You can pilot a glider
At 17
You can hold a liucence to drive most vehicles
You can pilot a plan
You can emigrate
You can engage in street trading
You can purchase an air rifle
At 18: Get married. Get piercings with out adult permission see x rated movies vote in general and local elections drink in 3 provinces in Canada have sex smoke buy tobacco buy porn join the military No curfew for driving even if you have gotten a ticket before. Go to the doctor's by yourself.
You are legally seen as an adult in the eyes of the law
You ca open a bank account in your name without a parent or carer’s signature
You can buy and drink alcohol in a car
You can ask to see your birth certificate if you are adopted
You can change your name
You can be called to serve on a jury
You can sue or be sued
You can make a will
You can place a bet
You can appear before adult courts
You can act as an executor of a persons will
You can see an 18 certificate film
You can buy fireworks
You can own houses and land
You can go abroad to sing, play or perform professionally
You can be a blood donor
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