Nova Scotia

Subnational jurisdiction · as of 2026-10-25

Nova Scotia has no adult-content age-verification law, social-media minor-access restriction, app-store or device age-verification requirement, or age-appropriate design code, and no provincial measure on teaching or governing online safety for minors has been located.

No Act in the Legislature's list of consolidated public statutes, consolidated to September 22, 2026, is titled for age verification, social media, app stores or age-appropriate design, and no bill on those subjects has been located among the government bills that received Royal Assent in the 65th General Assembly.

The Intimate Images and Cyber-protection Act (S.N.S. 2017, c. 7) lets a parent or guardian apply to the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia on behalf of a minor and bars publication of the name of a minor involved in a proceeding under it, and it sets no age-verification, access or design duty for a service. The federal proposals on young persons' exposure to pornography and on social media are described in Canada's national entry.