The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (Commencement No. 5) Regulations 2025

Made: 10th June 2025

The Lord Chancellor makes these Regulations in exercise of the power conferred by section 219(1) of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023[^f00001].

Citation

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (Commencement No. 5) Regulations 2025.

Provision coming into force on 18th June 2025

2

The following provisions of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 come into force on 18th June 2025, insofar as they are not already in force[^f00002]—

• (a) section 194 (strategic litigation against public participation: requirement to make rules of court); and

• (b) section 195 (meaning of “SLAPP” claim).

Signed

Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor

Sarah Sackman — Minister of State — Ministry of Justice — 10th June 2025

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Explanatory Note

These 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.

The 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).

Relevant 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).

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2023 c. 56.

[^f00002]: Sections 194 and 195 were brought into force at Royal Assent for certain purposes by virtue of section 219(2)(b).