This blog provides a brief overview of September’s Legal Updates, which are relevant to Quality, Environmental, Info Sec and Health & Safety to help your organisation stay aligned with the latest legal requirements.
How to use this Update:
- You should review these updates and decide whether they are applicable to your company.
- Add all relevant items to your legal resister and document your compliance.
- Ensure all policy and procedures align with the new governance and compliance requirements.
- Provide information and training to all relevant to ensure you remain compliant
- Please note ISO 14001, ISO 45001, ISO 27001 and other standards require you to conduct a compliance evaluation.
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Legal
1st September
Northern Ireland
The Legal Complaints and Regulation (2016 Act) (Commencement No.1) Order (Northern Ireland) 2025
This Order brings into operation the Legal Complaints and Regulation Act (Northern Ireland) 2016, other than sections 9, 19(2)(c), 38(2)(c) and paragraph 2(4) of Schedule 4 to that Act, on 1st September 2025.
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Information Security
4th September
UK
The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Regulations 2025
These are the third commencement Regulations made under the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (c. 18) (“the 2025 Act”).
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Information Security
5th September
UK
The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (Commencement No. 2) Regulations 2025
These Regulations bring into force section 124 of the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (c. 18) (“the 2025 Act”). These are the second commencement regulations made under the Act.
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Finance
10th September
UK
The Customs (Tariff and Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) Regulations 2025
This instrument makes amendments to subordinate legislation previously made under the Taxation (Cross-border Trade) Act 2018 (“TCTA”), which provided for the United Kingdom’s Customs, Value Added Tax (“VAT”) and Excise regimes to be in place after the end of the Transition Period following the withdrawal of the United Kingdom (“UK”) from the European Union (“EU”).
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Finance
16th September
UK
The Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 (Capital Buffers and Macro-prudential Measures) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2025
This instrument makes technical amendments to legislation following the revocation and restatement of the Capital Requirements (Capital Buffers and Macro-prudential Measures) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/894) (“the 2014 Capital Buffers Regulations”). The purpose of the amendments is to ensure that the amended legislation will continue to operate effectively after the revocation and restatement of the 2014 Capital Buffers Regulations.
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Finance
16th September
UK
The Markets in Financial Instruments (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2025
When the UK left the European Union (EU), the body of EU legislation that applied directly in the UK at the point of exit was transferred onto the UK statute book by the European Union Withdrawal Act 2018 (EUWA). This is known as assimilated law. The Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 (FSMA 2023) repeals assimilated law relating to financial services, subject to commencement.
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Information Security
22nd September
UK
The Online Safety Act 2023 (Qualifying Worldwide Revenue) Regulations 2025
The Online Safety Act 2023 (Qualifying Worldwide Revenue) Regulations 2025 (the ‘legislation’) have been drafted by Ofcom and provide for how the qualifying worldwide revenue (‘QWR’) of a provider of a regulated service is to be determined.
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Media
29th September
UK
The Media Act 2024 (Commencement No. 3) Regulations 2025
These Regulations bring into force provisions of Parts 1 and 3 of the Media Act 2024 (c. 15) (“the Act”). This is the third set of commencement regulations made under the Act.
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ISO 14001, ISO 45001, ISO 27001 and other standards require you to conduct a compliance evaluation. If you haven’t done this, we can help.
Legal Register
Assent Risk Management has made over 250 UK Legal Register entries available to search on Resilify.io’s Legal Register Database.
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