The phrase "a lower minimum age" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing age requirements or regulations that specify a younger age limit for participation or eligibility in a certain activity or program.
Example: "The new policy proposes a lower minimum age for applicants, allowing younger individuals to apply for the program."
Alternatives: "a reduced minimum age" or "a decreased minimum age".
But the UN committee said that common law doctrine "results in practice in the use of the lower minimum age in cases of serious crimes".
A lower minimum voting age has been credited with boosting young people's interest in politics when it was introduced for the Scottish referendum on independence last September.
On May 9th the lower house of the Diet passed a bill to lower the minimum age, from 20 to 18, for voting to revise the constitution.
Within hours after his father's death he was named the armed forces commander, and the Syrian Parliament passed a law lowering the minimum age of the Syrian president from 40 to 34.
The government's latest round of national security laws would lower the minimum age for a control order to 14 years, allow the monitoring of people to ensure they did not breach their control order conditions, and make it illegal to advocate genocide.
In July 2014, despite pledging to end child marriage by 2041, the country's prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, attempted the lower the minimum age of marriage from 18 to 16.
Recruits are so scarce that some haulers have proposed changing federal regulations to lower the minimum age for interstate truckers to 18 from 21.
They say it will have a consequence that was never intended and is hidden in the obscure ballot language: It will effectively lower the minimum age at which killers can be put to death to 16 from 17.
As well as lifting the term limit for Rahmon, the amendments also lower the minimum age for presidential candidates from 35 to 30, and ban the formation of parties based on religion.
On Monday the producers of "American Idol" announced that they would lower the minimum age of eligibility for the singing competition to 15, the "Idol" host Ryan Seacrest said on his Web site, ryanseacrest.com.
