Code on Offenses, Art. 74(2)-(3): distributing information harmful to children, aggravated for online and mass-media distribution
In force since .
An adult content age verification (AV) rule binding public and private bodies.
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Applies to natural persons and legal persons alike; the offence is aggravated where the distribution uses mass media or an information-telecommunications network, including the Internet.
- Do not distribute to children information that causes harm to their health or development and is prohibited for distribution among children, where the conduct does not amount to a criminal offence.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
What it reaches
Age threshold
18
Covered services
any means of distributing information harmful to a child's health or development to a child, with an aggravated duty specifically for distribution via mass media or an information-telecommunications network including the Internet
Obligation class
Prohibition
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Article 74(2) and (3) are administrative offences for distributing information prohibited for children; they impose no age check, no record, no retention period and no regulator access to records. The Code names no territorial hook in these paragraphs.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Art. 74(2), read in full, fines distributing to children information that causes harm to their health or development and is prohibited for distribution among children, where the conduct does not amount to a criminal offense, at 20 calculation indicators for a natural person and 100 for a legal person.
Art. 74(3) raises that fine to 50 and 250 calculation indicators, respectively, where the same conduct is carried out using mass media or an information-telecommunications network, including the Internet. Contemporaneous press coverage of the amending law's signing reported the resulting fines as 2,000 som for a natural person and 10,000 som for a legal person, rising to 25,000 som for a legal person where the information was published in mass media or on the Internet.
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