COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS 
Forty-Fourth Session 
Pre-sessional open-ended Working Group 
on the Question of a Convention on the 
Rights of the Child
25–29 January 1988 

Proposal by Finland 

Article 1

1. For the purposes of the present Convention, a child means every human being who has not attained the age of 18 years. 
2. No provision of the present Convention shall be applied to a child who has attained the age of (15) years and who no longer is a minor, where the application would be manifestly incompatible with the legal status of that child. 
(3. In terms of paragraph 2 of this article, a child who no longer is a minor means a child who: 
(a) has full legal capacity; or 
(b) has become emancipated in all matters relating to his or her person; or 
(c) has the right to determine his or her own residence; or 
(d) has the capacity to enter into certain contractual relationships; or 
(e) has the capacity to dispose of certain parts of his or her property.)