Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010

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