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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>80111</law_id><section_number>40.1-104</section_number><catch_line>Age certificates</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="40.1">Labor and Employment</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="5">Child Labor</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>An age certificate shall be issued, upon request of the <span class="dictionary">employer</span> or the worker, for a person sixteen years of age or over. It shall be issued by the person authorized to <span class="dictionary">issue</span> employment certificates under the provisions of this chapter upon presentation of the same <span class="dictionary">evidence</span> of age as required for an employment certificate. The age certificate shall show the person&#x2019;s name and address, his date of birth and signature, the signature of the person issuing the certificate and the <span class="dictionary">evidence</span> accepted as proof of age.
		An employment or age certificate duly issued shall be conclusive <span class="dictionary">evidence</span> of the age of the person for whom issued in any proceeding involving the employment of the person under any of the labor <span class="dictionary">laws</span> of this Commonwealth as to any act occurring subsequent to its issuance and prior to its <span class="dictionary">revocation</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 40-113; 1970, c. 321; 1972, c. 824; 1979, c. 219.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
