TaiwanChild and Juvenile Welfare and Rights Protection Act, internet content protection duties
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
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In force.
An age-appropriate design code rule binding private bodies.
As of 22 September 2026.
What this law does
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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.
If you get it wrong
Private right of actionNo
Penalty structure
Article 94 fines an internet platform provider NT$60,000 to NT$300,000 for failing to take measures to restrict a child's or juvenile's access or to remove harmful content beforehand, in violation of Article 46, paragraph 3, and orders improvement within a set period, with continuous penalties for continued non-compliance.
- Rule
- Fixed only
- As of
- 22 September 2026
- Currency
- TWD
- Fixed cap
- 300,000
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
The competent authority for the relevant business (the communications and broadcasting competent authority for internet platform providers, per Article 46)
What it reaches
Age threshold
18
Covered services
Internet platform providers broadly defined: any provider of internet platform services after connecting to the internet, including providing storage space on the internet, or building websites to provide information, value-added services, or web-linking services (Article 46)
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