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Social Media (Age-Restricted Users) Bill

Provider duties - Provider must take reasonable steps

7: Provider must take reasonable steps to prevent age-restricted users from having accounts

You could also call this:

"Stop age-restricted users from having social media accounts"

Illustration for Social Media (Age-Restricted Users) Bill

If you are a provider of a social media platform with age restrictions, you must take reasonable steps to stop age-restricted users from having accounts. You need to do everything you can to prevent these users from becoming account holders on your platform. This means you have to try your best to keep age-restricted users off your platform.

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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=LMS1536457.

6: Act binds the Crown, or

"The law applies to the government too"

8: What constitutes reasonable steps, or

Part 2Provider duties
Provider must take reasonable steps

7Provider must take reasonable steps to prevent age-restricted users from having accounts

A provider of an age-restricted social media platform must take all reasonable steps to prevent an age-restricted user from being an account-holder with their age-restricted social media platform.