When you are 18 you are allowed to:
- Vote
- Sue or be sued
- Open a bank account in your own name
- Perform professionally abroad
- Serve on a jury
- Get a tattoo
- Buy cigarettes and tobacco
- Buy and drink alcohol in a bar
- See an 18 certificate film at the cinema
- Buy fireworks
- Leave home
- Marry or register a civil partnership
- Make a Will
- Leave your body for medical study if you die
- Carry an organ donor card
- You cannot be made a ward of the court
- Own land, buy a house or flat & apply for a mortgage
- If you are adopted, you can apply to see a copy of your original birth certificate
- Ride a motorbike above 125cc with a licence
- Drive lorries between 3500kg and 7500kg with a trailer up to 750kg (with the appropriate licence)
