Bill
Social Media Minimum Age Repeal Bill 2025
before parliament, as at 2025-11-25.
- Sponsor
- Ralph Babet
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2025-11-25
- second reading — 2025-11-25
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2025-11-25.
This bill would undo all changes made by a 2024 law that set a minimum age for social media.
It would remove the minimum age restrictions and penalties from the Online Safety Act 2021 and the related change to the Age Discrimination Act 2004.
The bill would take effect on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- Repeals the minimum age restrictions and penalties in Part 4A of the Online Safety Act 2021.
- Reverses the consequential amendment to the Age Discrimination Act 2004.
- Includes transitional provisions for reversing amendments to sections 143 and 146 of the Online Safety Act 2021.
People and entities affected by the social media minimum age restrictions under the Online Safety Act 2021.
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