Policy paper

Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Bill 2022: overarching documents

These documents relate to the bill stage of the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022.

This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

Documents

Draft Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Bill

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A bill to set up a register of overseas entities and their beneficial owners and require overseas entities who own land to register in certain circumstances; to make provision about unexplained wealth orders; and to make provision about sanctions.

The Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Bill received Royal Assent on 14 March 2022 and is now the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022

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Updates to this page

Published 28 February 2022
Last updated 26 October 2023 + show all updates
  1. Updated to reflect enactment.

  2. Annex added to 'register of overseas entities' fact sheet summarising the changes from the 2018 draft bill.

  3. Updated fact sheet on the Register of Overseas Entities

  4. Factsheet on unexplained wealth order reforms added.

  5. First published.

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