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Frankwell Quay
Shrewsbury
SY3 8HQ
Frankwell Quay
Shrewsbury
SY3 8HQ
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What you can do at age...
Want to prove you're who you say you are? Have a look at citizencard.com!
Age 10
- You can... Be charged with a criminal offence
- You can... Open a building society account, with the manager's agreement
- You can... Choose your own religion
Age 12
- You can... Buy certain pets
- You can... Watch Cert 12 movies
Age 13
- You can... Get a part-time job under certain conditions
- You can... Be placed in a secure unit of a care home for up to 72 hours, if you have a history of running away, or may injure yourself or others
- You can... Be found guilty of rape and other sex offences.
Age 14
You are no longer defined as a 'child', but a 'young person'!
- You can... Engage in light work
- You can... Go into a pub or bar on your own to buy soft drinks
- You are... Responsible for wearing a seat belt!
- You can... Drive a tractor on farmland
- You can... Be found guilty of any crime (though the court system is different)
Age 15
- You can... Watch Cert 15 movies
- You can... Be sent to a young offenders institution
- You can... Possess a shotgun certificate
Age 16
- You can... Leave school and work full time
- You can... Leave home with your parents consent
- You can... Consent to sex (Both heterosexual and homosexual)
- You can... Get a passport
- You can... Get married (If your parents agree!)
- You can... Consent to, or refuse medical or dental treatment
- You can... Change your name by deed poll
- You can... Buy a lottery ticket
- You can... Be a blood donor
- You can... Drive a moped up to 50cc
- You can... Fly solo in a glider
- You can... Sell scrap metal!
- You can... Join a trade union
- You can... Choose your own doctor
- You can... Claim benefits
- You can... Apply for legal help, advice and assistance
- You can... Get a National Insurance Number
- You can... Sign up for the British Army as a soldier
- You can... Sign up as a Royal Air Force airman/air woman
- You can... Sign up for the Royal Navy as a soldier
Age 17
- You can... Drive a car, motorcycle, van or tractor on the road
- You can... Fly a plane
- You can... Be a street trader
- You can... Girls can join the Armed Forces with parental consent
- You can... Get a firearms certificate
- You can... Apply for a helicopter pilot's license (!)
- You can... Sign up for the British Army as an officer
- You can... Sign up for the Royal Air Force as an officer
- You can... Sign up for the Royal Navy as an officer
- You can... Go to war
- You can... Buy a crossbow!
- You can... Be tried for a crime like an adult
- You can... Be interviewed by the police with no adults present
Age 18
You are now considered an adult in the eyes of the law
- You can... Serve on a jury
- You can... Place a bet
- You can... Make a Will
- You can... Carry a donor card
- You can... Buy alcohol
- You can... Vote
- You can... Sign contracts
- You can... Ride a motorbike above 125cc with a license
- You can... If you're adopted, you can see your birth certificate
- You can... Get a tattoo
- You can... Leave home without parental consent
- You can... Sue and be sued
- You can... Buy fireworks
- You can... Get married without your parents consent
- You can... Act as an executor of a persons will
- You can... See a Cert 18 movie
- You can... Go into a sex shop
- You can... Own houses and land
- You can... Apply for a mortgage
- You can... Buy cigarettes
- You can... Go abroad to sing, play or perform professionally
- You can... Pawn things at a pawn shop
- You can... Apply to be a police officer (to take up appointment at 18½)
Age 21
- You can... Apply to become a foster/adoptive parent
- You can... Supervise a learner if you have held a licence for the same type of vehicle for three years
- You can... Become an MP or councillor
- You can... Hold a license to sell alcohol
- You can... Hold a license to drive all large goods vehicles and passenger carrying vehicles





