The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (Commencement No. 5) Regulations 2025
S.I. 2025/718 · Made 10 June 2025
CIVIL PROCEEDINGS, ENGLAND AND WALES
Made 10th June 2025
The Lord Chancellor makes these Regulations in exercise of the power conferred by section 219(1) of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023f1.
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Contents
1Citation
These Regulations may be cited as the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (Commencement No. 5) Regulations 2025.
2Provision coming into force on 18th June 2025
The following provisions of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 come into force on 18th June 2025, insofar as they are not already in forcef1—
section 194 (strategic litigation against public participation: requirement to make rules of court); and
section 195 (meaning of “SLAPP” claim).
Signature
Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor
Sarah Sackman
Minister of State
Ministry of Justice
10th June 2025
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations are the fifth set of commencement regulations made under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (c. 56). They commence sections 194 and 195 of that Act, insofar as they are not already in force.
The effect of those sections is to require the Lord Chancellor to make Civil Procedure Rules that enable a court to dismiss a SLAPP claim (within the meaning of section 195) before trial in certain circumstances and to make certain costs orders as specified in section 194(4).
Relevant amendments to the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 (S.I. 1998/3132) will come into force on the same day as the provision which this instrument brings into force (see S.I. 2025/106, rule 1(2), rule 4 and rule 9).