Government lays final cryptoassets amendment regulations

The government laid final legislation amending the cryptoassets regulatory regime in Parliament on 15 September 2026: the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Cryptoassets) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations, linked from the updated policy-note page. The announcement supersedes the page's prior account of an only-draft statutory instrumentGOV.

The path to the final instrument runs through two earlier milestones the page now dates precisely. The base regime, the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Cryptoassets) Regulations 2026, was made on 4 February 2026Legislation and established the regulatory regime for cryptoassetsGOV. It comes fully into force on 25 October 2027 (the full commencement day), from which date firms carrying on activities that become regulated activities by virtue of the Regulations need permissionLegislation. Commencement 21 days after making covers only preparatory purposes: the FCA making or approving rules, giving guidance and directions, and taking other preparatory steps, plus the making and determination of Part 4A permission and variation applications, financial-promotion-approval permission applications, and Part 5 approval applications. Then, on 21 April 2026, the government published draft statutory provisions proposing targeted amendmentsGOV, with an explanatory policy note.

The draft's stated aims were greater certainty for firms seeking to provide stablecoin payment services, removal of barriers to certain other use cases, and additional changes to keep the United Kingdom's cryptoassets regime internationally competitive.

The page itself does not reproduce the operative provisions of the laid Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations beyond the legislation link, so the checkable news on this page is the laying event itself with its 15 September 2026 date, the identification of the final instrument by its full title, and the dated history that distinguishes the April draft provisions and their explanatory policy note from the now-laid final legislation. Until the laid text is examined, the settled operative facts in the documents are the base regime's making, its full commencement day, and the draft's stated policy aims.

The instruments are the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Cryptoassets) Regulations 2026 (2026 No. 102), made under powers in the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, as prospectively amended by the laid Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations.