Section 265: Age in relation to offences

Where in a charge for an offence, it is alleged that the person by or in respect of whom the offence was committed was a child under or above a specified age, and he appears to the court to have been at the date of the commission of the alleged offence a child under or above the specified age, as the case may be, he shall, for the purposes of this Act, be presumed at that date to have been a child or to have been under or above that age, as the case may be, unless the contrary is proved.