Law on Protection of Children from Harmful Information, restriction on distributing content prohibited for children
Law No. 169-VI (2 July 2018), Art. 16
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In force since 9 January 2019.
An adult content age verification (AV) rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 6 September 2026.
What this law does
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Article 16 defines information harmful to children as anything prohibited by the Constitution or by this Law, or restricted for children of a given age group by other legislation, and Article 16(2) lists what is prohibited for children outright: incitement to self-harm or suicide, incitement to antisocial or unlawful acts, sexually explicit content, depiction of sexual violence, profanity, content whose distribution to children is banned by other Kazakhstani laws, and content propagandizing non-traditional sexual orientation or paedophilia.
Article 16(3) bars distributing such prohibited-for-children content to minors at all, and where that distribution happens over the Internet requires administrative, technical, software or other means restricting children's access to it. Article 16 was amended in June 2024 and again at the end of December 2025.
When LexLint raises it
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