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Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010

  • Explanatory Notes Table of contents

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All reference to 'Parts' and 'sections' are from the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010. For other versions of these Explanatory Notes, see More Resources.

  1. Introduction

  2. Overview of the Act

  3. Summary

    1. Part 1: The Civil Service

    2. Part 2: Ratification of Treaties

    3. Part 3: Parliamentary Standards etc

    4. Part 4: Tax status of MPs and members of the House of Lords

    5. Part 5: Transparency of Government Financial Reporting to Parliament

    6. Part 6: Public Records and Freedom of Information

    7. Part 7: Miscellaneous and Final Provisions

      1. Section 47: section 3 of the Act of Settlement

      2. Section 48: Parliamentary elections: counting of votes

  4. Background

    1. Part 1 Background - The civil service

    2. Part 2 Background - Ratification of treaties

    3. Part 3 Background – Parliamentary Standards etc

    4. Part 4 Background – Tax status of MPs and members of the House of Lords

    5. Part 5 Background – Transparency of government financial reporting to Parliament

    6. Part 6 Background – Public Records and Freedom of Information

    7. Part 7 Background - Miscellaneous and Final Provisions

      1. Section 47 – section 3 of the Act of Settlement

      2. Section 48 – Parliamentary elections: counting of votes

  5. Territorial Extent

  6. Commentary on Sections

    1. Part 1: the Civil Service

      1. Chapter 1

        1. Section 1: Application of Chapter

        2. Section 2: Establishment of the Civil Service Commission

    2. Schedule 1: The Civil Service Commission

      1. Part 1: The Commissioners

      2. Part 2: The Commission

    3. Section 3: Management of the civil service

    4. Section 4: Other statutory management powers

    5. Section 5: Civil service code

    6. Section 6: Diplomatic service code

    7. Section 7: Minimum requirements for civil service and diplomatic service codes

    8. Section 8: Special advisers code

    9. Section 9: Conduct that conflicts with a code of conduct: complaints by civil servants

    10. Section 10: Selections for appointments to the civil service

    11. Section 11: Recruitment principles

    12. Section 12: Approvals for selections and exceptions

    13. Section 13: Complaints about competitions

    14. Section 14: Monitoring by the Commission

    15. Section 15: Definition of “special adviser”

    16. Section 16: Annual reports about special advisers

    17. Section 17: Agreements for the Commission to carry out additional functions

    18. Chapter 2

      1. Section 19: Consequential amendments and transitional provision

    19. Schedule 2: Consequential amendments and transitional provision relating to Part 1

      1. Part 1: Consequential amendments

      2. Part 2: Consequential amendments to other legislation

      3. Part 3: Transitional provision relating to the Civil Service Commission

      4. Part 4: Other transitional provision

    20. Part 2: Ratification of treaties

      1. Section 20: Treaties to be laid before Parliament before ratification

      2. Section 21: Extension of 21 sitting day period

      3. Section 22: Section 20 not to apply in exceptional cases

      4. Section 23: Section 20 not to apply to certain descriptions of treaties

      5. Section 24: Explanatory memoranda

      6. Section 25: Meaning of “treaty” and “ratification

    21. Part 3: Parliamentary Standards Etc

      1. Section 26: Compliance Officer

    22. Schedule 3: Parliamentary Standards Act 2009: substituted Schedule 2

    23. Section 27: Membership of Speaker’s Committee

    24. Section 28: Transparency etc

    25. Section 29: MPs’ salaries

    26. Section 30: MPs’ allowances scheme

    27. Section 31: Allowances claims

    28. Section 32: MPs’ code of conduct relating to financial interests

    29. Section 33: Investigations

    30. Section 34: Enforcement

    31. Schedule 4: Parliamentary Standards Act 2009: new Schedule 4

    32. Section 35: Relationships with other bodies etc

    33. Section 36: Further functions of the IPSA and Commissioner

    34. Section 37: Expiry of provisions of the Parliamentary Standards Act 2009

    35. Section 38: Consequential amendments

    36. Schedule 5: Parliamentary standards: consequential amendments

    37. Section 39: Resettlement grants for MEPs

    38. Section 40: Parliamentary and other pensions

    39. Schedule 6: Parliamentary and other pensions

      1. Part 1: Parliamentary and Other Pensions

      2. Part 2: Provisions which may be included in schemes

      3. Part 3: Amendments, transitional provision etc

    40. Part 4: Tax Status of Mps and Members of the House of Lords

      1. Section 41: Tax status of MPs and members of the House of Lords

      2. Section 42: Tax status of members of the House of Lords: transitional provision

    41. Part 5: Transparency of Government Financial Reporting to Parliament

      1. Section 43: Inclusion in departmental estimates of resources used by designated bodies

      2. Section 44: Corresponding provision in relation to Wales

    42. Part 6: Public Records and Freedom of Information

      1. Section 45: Transfer of records to Public Record Office

      2. Section 46: Freedom of information

    43. Schedule 7:  amendments of Freedom of Information Act 2000

    44. Part 7: Miscellaneous and Final Provisions

      1. Section 47: Section 3 of the Act of Settlement

      2. Section 48: Parliamentary elections: counting of votes

      3. Section 49: Meaning of “Minister of the Crown”

      4. Section 50: Financial provision

      5. Section 51: Power to make consequential provision

      6. Section 52: Extent, commencement, transitional provision and short title

  7. Commencement Dates

  8. Hansard References

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