Property (Digital Assets etc) Act 2025

2025 Chapter 29

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

Enacted [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:—

^I11 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.

^I22 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.

Footnotes

I1
S. 1 in force at Royal Assent, see s. 2(2)
I2
S. 2 in force at Royal Assent, see s. 2(2)