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Property (Digital Assets etc) Act 2025

2025 c. 29 · Enacted 2 December 2025 · Extends to England, Wales and Northern Ireland

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An Act to make provision about the types of things that are not prevented from being objects of personal property rights.

[2nd December 2025]

Be it enacted by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Contents

  1. 1Objects of personal property rights
  2. 2Extent, commencement and short title

1Objects of personal property rightsI1

A thing (including a thing that is digital or electronic in nature) is not prevented from being the object of personal property rights merely because it is neither—

(a)

a thing in possession, nor

(b)

a thing in action.

2Extent, commencement and short titleI1

(1)

This Act extends to England and Wales and Northern Ireland.

(2)

This Act comes into force on the day on which it is passed.

(3)

This Act may be cited as the Property (Digital Assets etc) Act 2025.