Taiwan

National jurisdiction · as of 2026-09-22

Taiwan has not enacted a dedicated age-verification statute for adult content, a social-media minor-access law, an app-store age-verification requirement, or a named age-appropriate design code.

The closest primary-source instrument located is the Child and Juvenile Welfare and Rights Protection Act, which requires an internet platform provider to adopt protection measures against content harmful to a child's or juvenile's physical and mental health and to restrict or remove such content once notified, without itself prescribing a specific age-verification method.

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Instruments on record

Child and Juvenile Welfare and Rights Protection Act, internet content protection duties

In force

Child and Juvenile Welfare and Rights Protection Act (兒童及少年福利與權益保障法), Arts. 2, 46, 46-1, 94

Applies to private

The communications and broadcasting competent authority must entrust private organizations with establishing content-protection agencies for children's and juveniles' internet use, and an internet platform provider, defined broadly as any provider of internet platform services including storage space, websites, or web-linking services, must establish self-regulatory norms and adopt clear, feasible protection measures against content harmful to a child's or juvenile's physical and mental health (Article 46).

Where the competent authority for the relevant business notifies a platform provider that its content is harmful or that its protection measures are inadequate, the provider must restrict a child's or juvenile's access or browsing, or remove the content beforehand; a provider that fails to do so is fined NT$60,000 to NT$300,000 and ordered to improve within a set period (Article 94).

Article 46-1 separately prohibits anyone from disseminating or transmitting content harmful to a child's or juvenile's physical and mental health on the internet without taking clear, feasible protection measures or cooperating with a platform's protection mechanisms, in a way that makes the content accessible to a child or juvenile. "Children and juveniles" means persons under eighteen (Article 2).

The Act does not itself prescribe a specific age-verification method, leaving the content-classification system, filtering software, and self-regulatory norms to be developed under the competent authority's protection mechanisms.

Age threshold18
Enforcement bodyThe competent authority for the relevant business (the communications and broadcasting competent authority for internet platform providers, per Article 46)
Private suitsno

Source: Full text of law