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Austria

Federal Law concerning the Granting of Asylum

(1997 Asylum Act, amended 2002)

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Article 25.

(1) Aliens of full age shall be competent to act in procedures pursuant to the present federal law.

Austrian law shall be authoritative with respect to the attainment of full age for the purposes of

the present federal law, irrespective of the nationality of the alien (article 21 of the Civil Code).

(2) Minors of age [i.e. 14 to 18 years; note of the translator ] whose interests cannot be

defended by their legal representatives shall be entitled to file applications. Upon the initiation of

a procedure, the legal representative shall be the locally competent youth welfare agency. As

soon as a legal representative has to intervene on behalf of such juveniles in accordance with

article 95, paragraph

(3), of the Aliens Act, he shall also be their representative for the purposes of the present

federal law.

(3) In procedures pursuant to the present federal law, each parent shall be individually

authorized to represent his or her child.