MexicoLey General de los Derechos de Niñas, Niños y Adolescentes, Video Game Age Verification (Art. 69 Bis)
Ley General de los Derechos de Niñas Niños y Adolescentes (LGDNNA), art. 69 Bis, adicionado por decreto publicado en el Diario Oficial de la Federación el 9 de marzo de 2018
In force since .
An adult content age verification (AV) rule binding private bodies.
- Enforcement body
- Secretaría de Gobernación
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Applies to video-game distributors, marketers (comercializadores) and renters (arrendadores).
- Distributors: print or affix the applicable classification on the game's cover and in its advertising, following the classification guidelines the Secretaría de Gobernación issues.
- Marketers: do not advertise, exhibit, sell or rent a video game whose classification is not visible under the guidelines.
- Marketers and renters: require a person seeking to buy or rent a video game classified as exclusively for adults to prove they have reached the age of majority, and do not proceed with the sale or rental without that proof; the article does not specify a proof-of-age method.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
What it reaches
Covered services
Video-game distributors, marketers (comercializadores), and renters (arrendadores), for any video game classified as exclusively for adults
Obligation class
Age verification
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Article 69 Bis requires the seller or renter to demand proof of majority at the point of sale or rental but names no record, log or retention of that check, and states no audit, access right or territorial hook; the proof is shown by the buyer and the article does not say the seller must keep it.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Article 69 Bis requires the Secretaría de Gobernación to issue the guidelines classifying video games distributed, marketed, or rented by any means, and to oversee compliance. A video-game distributor must print or affix the applicable classification on the game's cover and in its advertising. A video-game marketer must not advertise, exhibit, sell, or rent a video game whose classification is not visible under the guidelines.
A video-game marketer or renter must require a person seeking to buy or rent a video game classified as exclusively for adults to prove they have reached the age of majority, without which the sale or rental may not proceed. Article 148, fracción VII Bis, makes contravening this duty an infraction, sanctioned under Article 149 with a fine of 3,000 to 30,000 days of the general minimum wage in effect when the conduct occurred, doubled on recidivism. The article itself does not specify a required proof-of-age method.
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