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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/economic-crime-and-corporate-transparency-act-2023-commencement-no-5-regulations-2025/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/718",
  "legislation_title": "The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (Commencement No. 5) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/economic-crime-and-corporate-transparency-act-2023-commencement-no-5-regulations-2025",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese 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.\nThe 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).\nRelevant 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).",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/718/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:14:41.316370+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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