A proposal that will force online retailers to take extra steps to ensure that young people cannot buy or access inappropriate goods or material will move one step closer to becoming law on Monday.
The Online Purchasing of Goods and Services (Age Verification) Bill will receive its second reading in the House of Commons on Monday. The second reading is the stage before it enters the Committee system for detailed discussion and amendment.
The Bill proposes making it a requirement "for the providers of goods and services and the providers of specified facilities enabling the purchase of such goods and services to take reasonable steps, in certain circumstances, to establish the age of customers making such purchases".
The proposed law refers to goods which it is already illegal to sell to people under the specified ages, such as 18 for cigarettes and alcohol.
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