Impact assessment

Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023: impact assessments

Impact assessments relating to the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act.

• From: Home Office, Department for Business and Trade, HM Treasury, Ministry of Justice, Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy and Serious Fraud Office
• Published: 22 September 2022
• Last updated: 8 March 2024
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  1. 8 March 2024

     Impact assessments updated: Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill – Scottish Solicitors Discipline Tribunal financial penalty; Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill – New regulatory objective in the Legal Services Act 2007; Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill – New proactive information request power for the Solicitors Regulation Authority to use in relation to economic crime.

  2. 26 October 2023

     Updated to reflect enactment.

  3. 27 June 2023

     Updated the impact assessment on enhanced due diligence: designation of high-risk countries (HM Treasury).

  4. 16 June 2023

     Impact assessment: 'Reform to the identification doctrine' added.

  5. 11 April 2023

     The following new IAs were added: (1) Introducing a failure to prevent fraud offence covering all large organisations (2) New proactive information request power for the Solicitors Regulation Authority to use in relation to economic crime (3) Scottish Solicitors' Discipline Tribunal financial penalty. The following were updated: (1) the removal of the statutory cap on financial penalties in relation to economic crime matters (2) regulators of legal services: objective relating to economic crime.

  6. 26 January 2023

     The following impact assessments have been updated: Overarching economic crime measures (Home Office measures), Cryptoassets, DAML (defence against money laundering suspicious activity reports), Exemptions for handling mixed suspected criminal and legitimate property, Information Orders, Information sharing.

  7. 25 October 2022

     Regulatory Policy Committee opinion: Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill 2022 (Home Office measures) updated.

  8. 22 September 2022

     First published.

Documents

Impact assessment: reform to the identification doctrine

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Impact assessment: introducing a failure to prevent fraud offence covering all large organisations

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Impact assessment: new proactive information request power for the Solicitors Regulation Authority to use in relation to economic crime

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Impact assessment: Scottish Solicitors' Discipline Tribunal financial penalty

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Impact assessment for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

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Regulatory Policy Committee opinion: corporate transparency and Companies House register reform

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Regulatory Policy Committee opinion: reform of limited partnership law

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Impact assessment: overarching economic crime measures (Home Office measures)

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Impact assessment: cryptoassets

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Impact assessment: exemptions for handling mixed suspected criminal and legitimate property

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Impact assessment: DAML

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Impact assessment: information orders

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Impact assessment: information sharing

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Regulatory Policy Committee opinion: Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill 2022 (Home Office measures)

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Impact assessment: enhanced due diligence: designation of high-risk countries (HM Treasury)

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Impact assessment: the removal of the statutory cap on financial penalties in relation to economic crime matters (Ministry of Justice)

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Impact assessment: regulators of legal services: objective relating to economic crime (Ministry of Justice)

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Details

The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill 2022 received Royal Assent on 26 October 2023 and is now the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023.

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