Just to add to everyone's woes and a moderator may wish to bring this to the attention of the owners of this forum, I was in a meeting with Ofcom (the regulator of the new UK legislation) yesterday and not only would this forum fall under the new legislation but as an obstensible user to user platform, it also has additional responsibilities under the legislation and has to comply by 16th March.
All websites which require UK Age Verification have until mid July to comply.