Bermuda

National jurisdiction · as of 2026-09-07

Bermuda has no social-media minor-access restriction, app-store age-verification requirement, or age-appropriate design code. Adult content is instead regulated through the Obscene Publications Act 1973, which bars publishing an obscene article to, or in the presence of, a person under the age of sixteen years, alongside general offences of importing, publicly publishing, or possessing an obscene article for gain.

"Publishes" is defined broadly to include distributing, circulating, selling, letting on hire, giving or lending an article, or showing, playing or projecting one containing matter to be looked at or a record, so the restriction reaches a distributor's supply of obscene material rather than merely its public exhibition.

The Act separately empowers the Minister to make regulations restricting the sale of a classified magazine to sections of the public selected by reference to immaturity of age, though no such regulations have been located. The Criminal Code Act 1907's child abusive material and child pornography offences criminalise material depicting a minor rather than gating access to adult content generally.