Mexico

National jurisdiction · as of 2026-09-07

Mexico binds a private video-game distributor, seller, or renter to an age-verification duty under the Ley General de los Derechos de Niñas, Niños y Adolescentes (LGDNNA): a video game classified as exclusively for adults may not be sold or rented to a person who does not prove they have reached the age of majority.

Two further instruments reach minors and content but not through a gating or access-control duty, so neither is recorded here as an instrument: the LGDNNA and the Ley en Materia de Telecomunicaciones y Radiodifusión (LMTR, in force since 16 July 2025, replacing the 2014 Ley Federal de Telecomunicaciones y Radiodifusión) both bind a radio and television concessionaire to display an on-screen content classification and to abstain from broadcasting content harmful to minors, which is a labelling and scheduling duty rather than a gating one.

The Código Penal Federal's Article 202 criminalises producing, offering, or distributing child-sexual-abuse material generally, which is a general criminal offence rather than a private-service gating duty. No social-media minor-access restriction, app-store or device-level age-verification duty, or age-appropriate design code was located in the sources checked.

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Instruments on record

Ley General de los Derechos de Niñas, Niños y Adolescentes, Video Game Age Verification (Art. 69 Bis)

In force

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

Effective 2018-03-10 · Applies to private

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.

Enforcement bodySecretaría de Gobernación

Source: Full text of law