Property (Digital Assets etc) Act 2025

Objects of personal property rights

1

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.

Extent, commencement and short title

2

• (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.