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Social Media (Age-Restricted Users) Bill

1: Title

You could also call this:

"This law is about social media rules for younger users."

Illustration for Social Media (Age-Restricted Users) Bill

This proposed law is called the Social Media (Age-Restricted Users) Act 2025. You will see the year 2025 in the title of this Act. The title of this Act tells you what it is about.

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This page was last updated on 27 October 2025

View the original legislation for this page at https://legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1986/0120/latest/link.aspx?id=LMS1536438.

Topics:

Rights and equality > Anti-discriminationFamily and relationships > Children and parenting

Clause by clause analysis, or

"Breaking down the Social Media Bill into smaller parts to understand what it says"

2: Commencement, or

"When the law starts, 6 months after it's agreed to"

1Title

This Act is the Social Media (Age-Restricted Users) Act 2025.