# Property (Digital Assets etc) Act 2025

2025 c. 29 · enacted 2 December 2025 · revised to 2 December 2025

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

PDFs: Printed copy https://openlegislation.uk/property-digital-assets-etc-act-2025/pdf/ukpga_20250029_en.pdf

## Introductory text

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:—

## 1 Objects of personal property rights

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.

## 2 Extent, commencement and short title

(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/29 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/property-digital-assets-etc-act-2025
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