KazakhstanLaw on Protection of Children from Harmful Information, restriction on distributing content prohibited for children
In force.
An adult content age verification (AV) rule binding public and private bodies.
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Applies to anyone distributing information to minors; the access-restriction duty applies where the distribution happens over the Internet.
- Do not distribute to minors information prohibited for children: incitement to self-harm, suicide or antisocial or unlawful acts, sexually explicit content, depiction of sexual violence, profanity, content banned for children by other Kazakhstani laws, and content propagandizing non-traditional sexual orientation or paedophilia.
- Where such distribution happens over the Internet, put administrative, technical, software or other means in place restricting children's access to it.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Article 16(3) bars distributing information prohibited for children to minors and requires administrative, technical, software or other means of restricting children's access online; it names no age check, no record, no retention period and no regulator access to a record. The Article states no territorial hook of its own.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Article 16 defines information harmful to children as anything prohibited by the Constitution or by this Law, or restricted for children of a given age group by other legislation, and Article 16(2) lists what is prohibited for children outright: incitement to self-harm or suicide, incitement to antisocial or unlawful acts, sexually explicit content, depiction of sexual violence, profanity, content whose distribution to children is banned by other Kazakhstani laws, and content propagandizing non-traditional sexual orientation or paedophilia.
Article 16(3) bars distributing such prohibited-for-children content to minors at all, and where that distribution happens over the Internet requires administrative, technical, software or other means restricting children's access to it. Article 16 was amended in June 2024 and again at the end of December 2025. The provisions this entry describes came into force on different days.
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