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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/economic-crime-and-corporate-transparency-act-2023-commencement-scotland-regulations-2025/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2025/304",
  "legislation_title": "The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (Commencement) (Scotland) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/economic-crime-and-corporate-transparency-act-2023-commencement-scotland-regulations-2025",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations bring into force on 31 March 2026 Part 2 of schedule 8 and section 179 (so far as it relates to that part) of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (“the Act”).\nSchedule 8 of the Act (as introduced by section 179) amends Part 3 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (c. 29) (“POCA”) (confiscation: Scotland) to extend the confiscation regime under POCA to cryptoassets.",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2025/304/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:33:44.176373+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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