Philippines
National jurisdiction · as of 2026-10-17
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The Philippines has a physical adult-content age-verification duty on cinema and theater licensees, but no social-media minor-access restriction, no app-store age-verification requirement, and no age-appropriate design code.
The Movie and Television Review and Classification Board's charter (Presidential Decree No. 1986) bars a person below eighteen from admission to a moviehouse or theater screening a film the Board has classified "Restricted" or "For Adults Only", requiring proof of age where doubt exists, but this duty is not extended to an online or on-demand exhibition channel.
The Children's Television Act (Republic Act No. 8370) sets child-viewing-hour scheduling and program-quality standards for broadcast television rather than an age-verification or access-gating duty.
The Anti-Child Pornography Act of 2009 (Republic Act No. 9775) and the Anti-OSAEC and Anti-CSAEM Act (Republic Act No. 11930, 2022) impose reporting, blocking, and content-filtering duties on internet service providers and internet intermediaries directed at child sexual abuse material as such, rather than an age-verification or minor-access-gating duty triggered by a user's age.
The Safe Spaces Act's online provisions (Republic Act No. 11313) address gender-based online sexual harassment and carry no age-verification or minor-access duty.
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Instruments on record
Movie and Television Review and Classification Board Charter, Admission Restriction to Adults-Only Films
In force
Presidential Decree No. 1986 (1985), Section 9
Applies to private
Section 9 makes it unlawful for a person below eighteen years of age to enter, or to misrepresent or use false evidence of age to gain admission into, a moviehouse or theater showing a motion picture the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) has classified "Restricted" or "For Adults Only". It is likewise unlawful for a theater employee to sell or accept from such a person an admission ticket to such a screening.
Where there is doubt as to a person's age, the person seeking admission must exhibit a residence certificate or other proof of age. Section 11 punishes a violation of the Decree, including this admission restriction, with imprisonment of three months and one day to one year and a fine of not less than fifty thousand pesos nor more than one hundred thousand pesos.
Section 24 provides that the Decree takes effect after fifteen (15) days following its publication in the Official Gazette and/or in newspapers of general circulation in the Philippines. No notice stating the day of that publication has been located.
| Age threshold | 18 |
| Verification methods | gov id |
| Enforcement body | Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) |
Source: Full text of law