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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/digital-markets-competition-and-consumers-act-2024-commencement-no-2-regulations-2025/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/272",
  "legislation_title": "The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 (Commencement No. 2) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/digital-markets-competition-and-consumers-act-2024-commencement-no-2-regulations-2025",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations bring into force certain provisions of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 (c.13) (“the Act”) on 6th April 2025 and bring further provisions, relating to consumer savings, into force on 1st January 2026. These are the second commencement Regulations made under the Act.\nThese Regulations bring into force the following provisions of the Act, on 6th April 2025, to the extent that they are not in force immediately before that date:\nPart 3 (enforcement of consumer protection law), which confers enforcement powers, and makes provision about other remedies, in connection with infringements of consumer protection law;\nChapter 1 (protection from unfair trading) of Part 4 (consumer rights and disputes), except sections 232, 234 and 235 which relate to consumers’ right of redress in relation to unfair commercial practices. Chapter 1 of Part 4 of the Act repeals and replaces the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1277);\nin Chapter 3 of Part 5 (miscellaneous), section 327(2) (duty of expedition on the CMA and sectoral regulators) to the extent that it inserts Part 3 (consumer functions) of Schedule 4A (functions to which the CMA’s duty of expedition applies) into the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (c. 24);\nin Part 6 (general) section 335 together with the specified paragraphs of Schedule 30 (minor and consequential amendments); and\nthe Schedules which are relevant to the provisions outlined above.\nThese Regulations additionally bring into force Chapter 3 (consumer savings schemes) of Part 4 of, and Schedule 24 (excluded arrangements) to, the Act on 1st January 2026 to the extent that they are not in force immediately before that date.\nThe impact assessments completed for the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill, introduced to Parliament on 25th April 2023, contain an assessment of the effect that the reforms to the consumer regime will have on the costs of business, the voluntary sector and the public sector. They are available at: https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3453/publications. Printed copies can be obtained from the Department for Business and Trade, Old Admiralty Building, Admiralty Place, London, SW1A 2DY.",
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  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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