A bill prohibiting minors under 16 from using social media will be introduced in New Zealand.

Christopher Luxon, the prime minister of New Zealand, announced on Monday that his party will present a bill in Parliament that aims to prohibit children under the age of sixteen from using social media. He suggested sanctions of up to 10% of a platform’s worldwide income for noncompliance.

According to the bill, social media companies must take reasonable measures to confirm users’ ages, such as using digital identity documents, facial recognition software, and account information already in place.

“We simply cannot accept ⁠the harm being done to a generation of New Zealand children,” Luxon said in a statement. “Social media is exposing them to harmful content, addictive technology and pressures they are not equipped to deal with and it’s affecting their family life, mental health, sleep and education.”

It was not immediately clear if the bill would garner sufficient support to pass through Parliament, with one of Luxon’s coalition partners, the New Zealand First party, saying it would not support it. “We have been concerned with the proposed ‌legislation ⁠and the direction and slippery slope that legislation like this will inevitably take our country,” New Zealand First leader Winston Peters, who is also the country’s foreign minister, said in a post on X.

Australia became the first nation in the world to prohibit minors under the age of sixteen from using social media, including Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, , and Meta. According to Peters, the law has been a “colossal failure,” and parents should be in charge of preventing their children from using social media.

“I won’t pretend that it will be simple or that it will be perfect,” Luxon said at an event. “We won’t get every ⁠single child off social media. Some will always find ways around it, but frankly, it’s just way too important not to at least try.”