ELIZABETH II

Cornwall Act 2021

2021 CHAPTER 10

An Act to provide for the establishment of a Cornish Parliament and Administration and other changes in the governance of Cornwall; and for connected purposes.
Changelog
Bill ID B071
Author(s) Sir Hywel ap Iorwerth OOBC AS
Amended by Their Grace Ser Marijn Hoyle GCTL KOBC PC MP
Sir Nicholas Clack KCTL KOBC , 1stBaron Milton Keynes
First reading 10 March 2021
Royal assent 13 May 2021
Commencement TBD
Affected legislation N/A

Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

The Cornish Parliament

1 The Cornish Parliament

  1. There shall be a Cornish Parliament (in Cornish: Senedh Kernow) (referred to in this Act as the Senedh).
  2. The Senedh shall take over the responsibilities of the Cornish Council.
  3. One member of the Senedh shall be returned for each constituency (under the simple majority system) at an election held in the constituency.
  4. Members of the Senedh for each region shall be returned at a general election under an additional member system of proportional representation provided for in an Act by the Cornish Parliament.
  5. The exercise of the Senedh of its functions is to be regarded as done on behalf of the Crown.
  6. The validity of any proceedings of the Senedh is not affected by any vacancy in its membership.

Section 2 Senedh Constituencies and Electoral Regions

  1. The Senedh constituencies shall be the same as the current wards of the Cornwall Council.
  2. There are five Senedh electoral regions.
  3. These five electoral regions shall be decided by the Electoral Commission before dissolution of Parliament before the next General Election.

Section 3 Acts of the Cornish Parliament

  1. Subject to section 4, the Senedh may make laws, to be known as Acts of the Cornish Parliament.
  2. Proposed Acts of the Cornish Parliament shall be known as Bills; and a Bill shall become an Act of the Cornish Parliament when it has been passed by the Senedh and has received Royal Assent.
  3. This section does not affect the power of the Parliament of the United Kingdom to make laws for Cornwall.
  4. The Parliament of the United Kingdom shall not legislate with regards to devolved matters without the consent of the Senedh.
  5. The Parliament of the United Kingdom can not take away any competence given to the Senedh without the consent of the Senedh.

Section 4 Legislative Competence

  1. An Act of the Cornish Parliament is not law so far as any provision of the Act is outside the legislative competence of the Senedh.
  2. A provision is outside the competence so far as any of the following paragraphs apply—
    1. it would form part of the law of a country or territory other than Cornwall, or confer or remove functions exercisable otherwise than in or as regard to Cornwall,
    2. it relates to reserved matters as outlined in Schedule 1, or
    3. it is incompatible with any of the Convention rights or with EU law.

Section 5 Permanence of the Cornish Parliament and Cornish Government

  1. The Senedh and the Cornish Government are a permanent part of the United Kingdom’s constitutional arrangements.
  2. The purpose of this section is, with due regard to the other provisions of this Act, to signify the commitment of the Parliament and Government of the United Kingdom to the Senedh and the Cornish Government.
  3. In view of that commitment it is declared that the Senedh and the Cornish Government are not to be abolished except on the basis of a decision of the people of Cornwall voting in a referendum.

Section 6 Members of the Senedh

  1. The term of office of a Member of the Senedh —
    1. begins when the Member of the Senedh is declared to be returned, and
    2. ends with the dissolution of the Senedh.
  2. A Member of the Senedh may at any time resign by giving notice in writing to the Presiding Officer.
  3. A person is disqualified from being a Member of the Senedh (but not from being a candidate to be a Member of the Senedh) if that person—
    1. is a member of the House of Commons,
    2. is a member of the House of Lords,
    3. is a member of the council of a county or county borough in Cornwall,
    4. is a member of the Scottish Parliament,
    5. is a member of the Welsh Parliament,
    6. is a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly,
    7. is a member of the European Parliament, or
    8. holds any of the offices for the time being designated by Order in Council as offices disqualifying persons from being Members of the Senedh,

Section 7 Presiding Officer etc.

  1. The Senedh must, at its first meeting following a general election, elect from among the Members of the Senedh —
    1. a presiding officer called the Lewydh (referred to in this Act as “the Presiding Officer”), and
    2. a deputy presiding officer called the Islewydh (referred to in this Act as “the Deputy Presiding Officer”)
  2. The person elected under paragraph (a) of subsection (1) is to be known as the Presiding Officer or by such other title as the standing orders may provide; and the person elected under paragraph (b) of that subsection is to be known as the Deputy Presiding Officer or by such other title as the standing orders may provide.
  3. The Presiding Officer holds office until the conclusion of the next election of a Presiding Officer under subsection (1).
  4. The Deputy Presiding Officer holds office until the Senedh is dissolved.
  5. But the Presiding Officer or Deputy Presiding Officer—
    1. may at any time resign,
    2. ceases to hold office on ceasing to be a Member of the Senedh otherwise than by reason of a dissolution, and
    3. may be removed from office by the Senedh.
  6. If the Presiding Officer or the Deputy Presiding Officer ceases to hold office under subsection (5) (or dies), the Senedh must elect a replacement from among the Members of the Senedh.
  7. Subject to subsection (9), the Presiding Officer and the Deputy Presiding Officer must not belong to—
    1. the same political group, or
    2. different political groups both of which are political groups with an executive role.
  8. For the purposes of this Act a political group is a political group with an executive role if the First Minister or one or more of the Cornish Ministers appointed under section 19 belong to it.
  9. The Senedh may resolve that subsection (7) is not to apply for so long as the resolution so provides; but if the motion for the resolution is passed on a vote it is of no effect unless at least two-thirds of the Members of the Senedh voting support it.
  10. The Presiding Officer’s functions may be exercised by the Deputy Presiding Officer if—
  11. the office of Presiding Officer is vacant, or
  12. the Presiding Officer is for any reason unable to act.
  13. The Presiding Officer may (subject to the standing orders) authorise the Deputy Presiding Officer to exercise functions of the Presiding Officer.
  14. The standing orders may include provision for the Presiding Officer’s functions to be exercisable by any person specified in, or determined in accordance with, the standing orders if—
  15. the office of Presiding Officer is vacant or the Presiding Officer is for any reason unable to act, and
  16. the office of Deputy Presiding Officer is vacant or the Deputy Presiding Officer is for any reason unable to act.

Section 8 Clerk of the Senedh

  1. The Senedh Commission must appoint a person to be the Clerk of the Senedh (referred to in this Act as “the Clerk”).
  2. The person appointed under subsection (1) is to be known as the Clerk of the Senedh, Clerc an Senedh or by such other title as the standing orders may provide.
  3. The Clerk’s functions may be exercised by any other member of the staff of the Senedh (or person seconded to work at the Senedh) authorised by the Senedh Commission if—
    1. the office of Clerk is vacant, or
    2. the Clerk is for any reason unable to act.
  4. The Clerk may authorise any other member of the staff of the Senedh (or person seconded to work at the Senedh) to exercise functions on the Clerk’s behalf.

Section 9 The Senedh Commission

  1. There is to be a body corporate to be known as the Senedh Commission or Comision an Senedh (referred to in this Act as “the Senedh Commission”).
  2. The members of the Senedh Commission are to be—
    1. the Presiding Officer, and
    2. four other Members of the Senedh.
  3. The standing orders must make provision for the appointment of the four other Members of the Senedh as members of the Senedh Commission.
  4. The provision included in the standing orders in compliance with subsection (3) must (so far as it is reasonably practicable to do so) secure that not more than one of the members of the Senedh Commission (other than the Presiding Officer) belongs to any one political group.
  5. The Senedh Commission must—
    1. provide to the Senedh, or
    2. ensure that the Senedh is provided with,
    the property, staff and services required for the Senedh’s purposes.
  6. The Senedh may give special or general directions to the Senedh Commission for the purpose of, or in connection with, the exercise of the Senedh Commission’s functions.
  7. Any property, rights or liabilities acquired or incurred in relation to matters to which the Senedh would otherwise be entitled or subject are to be treated for all purposes as property, rights or liabilities of the Senedh Commission.

Part 2 General Elections

Section 10 Ordinary General Elections

  1. The day on which the poll at the first ordinary general election for membership of the Senedh shall be held, and the day, time and place for the meeting of the Senedh following that poll, shall be appointed by order made by the Secretary of State.
  2. The poll at subsequent ordinary general elections shall be held on the first Thursday in May in the fourth calendar year following that in which the previous ordinary general election was held
  3. The poll shall not be held on the same date as the date of the poll at—
    1. a parliamentary general election, or
    2. a European parliamentary general election.

Section 11 Extraordinary General Elections

  1. The Presiding Officer shall propose a day for the holding of a poll, if the Senedh resolves that it should be dissolved and if the number of members voting in favour for such a resolution on a division is not less than two-thirds of the total number of seats for members of the Senedh.
  2. If a poll under this section is held less than six months before the day the next ordinary general election would be held, that ordinary election shall not be held.
  3. Subsection (2) does not affect the year of which the subsequent ordinary general election is to be held.

Section 12 Voting at General Elections

  1. Each person entitled to vote at a general election in a Senedh constituency has two votes.
  2. One (referred to in this Act as a “constituency vote”) is a vote which may be given for a candidate to be the Senedh constituency member for the Senedh constituency.
  3. The other (referred to in this Act as an “electoral region vote”) is a vote which may be given for—
    1. a registered political party which has submitted a list of candidates to be Senedh regional members for the Senedh electoral region in which the Senedh constituency is included, or
    2. an individual who is a candidate to be a Senedh regional member for that Senedh electoral region.
  4. The Senedh constituency member for the Senedh constituency is to be returned under the simple majority system.
  5. The Senedh regional members for the Senedh electoral region are to be returned under the additional member system of proportional representation provided for in this Part.
  6. In this Act “registered political party” means a party registered under Part 2 of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (c. 41).

Section 13 Calculation and Allocation of seats to electoral region members

  1. The person who is to be returned as the Senedh constituency member for each Senedh constituency in the Senedh electoral region is to be determined before it is determined who are to be returned as the Senedh regional members for the Senedh electoral region.
  2. For each registered political party by which a list of candidates has been submitted for the Senedh electoral region—
    1. there is to be added together the number of electoral region votes given for the party in the Senedh constituencies included in the Senedh electoral region, and
    2. the number arrived at under paragraph (a) is then to be divided by the aggregate of one and the number of candidates of the party returned as Senedh constituency members for any of those Senedh constituencies.
  3. For each individual candidate to be a Senedh regional member for the Senedh electoral region there is to be added together the number of electoral region votes given for the candidate in the Senedh constituencies included in the Senedh electoral region.
  4. The number arrived at—
    1. in the case of a registered political party, under subsection (2)(b), or
    2. in the case of an individual candidate, under subsection (3),
    is referred to in this Act as the electoral region figure for that party or individual candidate.
  5. The first seat for the Senedh electoral region is to be allocated to the party or individual candidate with the highest electoral region figure.
  6. The second and subsequent seats for the Senedh electoral region are to be allocated to the party or individual candidate with the highest electoral region figure after any recalculation required by subsection (7) has been carried out.
  7. This subsection requires a recalculation under paragraph (b) of subsection (3) in relation to a party—
    1. for the first application of subsection (6), if the application of subsection (5) resulted in the allocation of a Senedh seat to the party, or
    2. for any subsequent application of subsection (6), if the previous application of that subsection did so,
    and a recalculation is to be carried out after adding one to the aggregate mentioned in that paragraph.
  8. An individual candidate already returned as an Senedh constituency member or Senedh regional member is to be disregarded.
  9. Seats for the Senedh electoral region which are allocated to a party are to be filled by the persons on the party’s list in the order in which they appear on the list (disregarding anyone already returned as a Senedh constituency member, including anyone whose return is void).
  10. Once a party’s list has been exhausted (by the return of persons included on it as Senedh constituency members or by the previous application of subsection (5) or (6)), the party is to be disregarded.
  11. If (on the application of subsection (5) or any application of subsection (6)) the highest electoral region figure is the electoral region figure of two or more parties or individual candidates, the subsection applies to each of them.
  12. However, if subsection (11) would mean that more than the full number of seats for the Senedh electoral region were allocated, subsection (5) or (6) does not apply until—
  13. a recalculation has been carried out under subsection (3)(b) after adding one to the number of votes given for each party with that electoral region figure, and
  14. one has been added to the number of votes given for each individual candidate with that electoral region figure.
  15. If, after that, the highest electoral region figure is still the electoral region figure of two or more parties or individual candidates, the regional returning officer must decide between them by lots.

Section 14 Electoral Region Vacancies

  1. This section applies if the seat of a Senedh regional member returned for a Senedh electoral region is vacant.
  2. If the Senedh regional member was returned (under section 13 or this section) from the list of a registered political party, the regional returning officer must notify the Presiding Officer the name of the person who is to fill the vacancy.
  3. A person’s name may only be so notified if the person—
    1. is included on the list submitted by the registered political party for the last general election,
    2. is willing to serve as a Senedh regional member for the Senedh electoral region, and
    3. is not a person to whom subsection (4) applies.
  4. This subsection applies to a person if—
    1. the person is not a member of the registered political party, and
    2. the registered political party gives notice to the regional returning officer that the person’s name is not to be notified to the Presiding Officer as the name of the person who is to fill the vacancy.
  5. But if there is more than one person who satisfies the conditions in subsection (3), the regional returning officer may only notify the name of whichever of them was the higher, or the highest, on that list.
  6. A person whose name is notified under subsection (2) is to be treated as having been declared to be returned as a Senedh regional member for the Senedh electoral region on the day on which notification of the person’s name is received by the Presiding Officer.
  7. The seat remains vacant until the next general election—
    1. if the Senedh regional member was returned as an individual candidate, or
    2. if that Senedh regional member was returned from the list of a registered political party but there is no-one who satisfies the conditions in subsection (3).
  8. For the purposes of this section, a person included on the list submitted by a registered political party for the last general election who—
    1. was returned as a Member of the Senedh at that election (even if the return was void), or
    2. has subsequently been returned under section 13 or this section (even if the return was void),
    is treated on and after the return of the person, as not having been included on the list.

Section 15 Constituency Vacancies

  1. This section applies if the seat of a Senedh constituency member returned for a Senedh constituency is vacant.
  2. Subject to subsection (7), an election must be held in the Senedh constituency to fill the vacancy.
  3. At the election, each person entitled to vote only has a constituency vote; and the Senedh constituency member for the Senedh constituency is to be returned under the simple majority system.
  4. The date of the poll at the election must be fixed by the Presiding Officer.
  5. The date must fall within the period of three months beginning with the occurrence of the vacancy.
  6. But if the vacancy does not come to the Presiding Officer’s notice within the period of one month beginning with its occurrence, the date must fall within the period of three months beginning when it does come to the Presiding Officer’s notice.
  7. The election must not be held if it appears to the Presiding Officer that the latest date which may be fixed for the poll would fall within the period of three months ending with the day on which the poll at the next ordinary general election would be held.
  8. The standing orders must make provision for determining the date on which a vacancy occurs for the purposes of this section.
  9. A person may not be a candidate in an election to fill a vacancy if the person is—
    1. a Member of the Senedh, or
    2. a candidate in another such election.

Section 16 Entitlement to Vote

  1. The persons entitled to vote at an election of Members of the Senedh (or of a Member of the Senedh) in a Senedh constituency are those who on the day of the poll—
    1. would be entitled to vote as electors at a local government election in an electoral area wholly or partly included in the Senedh constituency or fall within the extended franchise for Senedh elections as described in this section, and
    2. are registered in the register of local government electors at an address within the Senedh constituency.
  2. A person falls within the extended franchise for Senedh elections if the person—
    1. has attained the age of 16, but not the age of 18, and
    2. would, but for any disability removed by this section, be entitled to vote as an elector at a local government election in an electoral area wholly or partly included within the Senedh constituency.
  3. A person falls within the extended franchise for Senedh elections if the person—
    1. is a qualifying foreign citizen (within the meaning given by section 203(1) of the Representation of the People Act 1983 (c. 2)), and
    2. would, but for any disability removed by this section, be entitled to vote as an elector at a local government election in an electoral area wholly or partly included within the Senedh constituency.
  4. But a person is not entitled as an elector—
    1. to cast more than one constituency vote, or more than one electoral region vote, in the same Senedh constituency at any general election,
    2. to vote in more than one Senedh constituency at any general election, or
    3. to cast more than one vote in any election held under section 12.

Part 3 The Cornish Government

Section 17 The Cornish Government

  1. There is to be a Cornish Government, whose members are—
    1. the First Minister (in Cornish: Pennmenyster),
    2. the Cornish Ministers, and
    3. the Deputy Cornish Ministers.
  2. In this Act and in any other enactment or instrument the First Minister and the Cornish are referred to collectively as the Cornish Ministers.

Section 18 The First Minister

  1. The First Minister is to be appointed by Her Majesty after nomination in accordance with section 19.
  2. The First Minister holds the office at Her Majesty’s pleasure.
  3. The First Minister may at any time tender resignation to Her Majesty and ceases to hold office as First Minister when it is accepted.
  4. A person ceases to hold office First Minister if another person is appointed to that office.

Section 19 Choice of First Minister

  1. If one of the following events occurs, the Senedh must, before the end of the relevant period, nominate a member of the Senedh for appointment as First Minister.
  2. The events are—
    1. the holding of a poll at a general election,
    2. the Senedh resolving that the Cornish Ministers no longer enjoy the confidence of the Senedh,
    3. the First Minister tendering resignation to her Majesty, and
    4. the First Minister dying or becoming permanently unable to act and to tender resignation.
  3. The Presiding Officer must recommend to Her Majesty the appointment of the person nominated by the Senedh under subsection (1).

Section 20 Cornish Ministers

  1. The First Minister may, with approval of Her Majesty, appoint Cornish Ministers from among the members of the Senedh.
  2. A Cornish Minister appointed under this section holds office at Her Majesty’s pleasure.
  3. A Cornish Minister appointed under this section may be removed from office by the First Minister.
  4. A Cornish Minister appointed under this section may at any time resign.
  5. A Cornish Minister appointed under this section must resign if the Senedh resolves that the Cornish ministers no longer enjoy the confidence of the Senedh.
  6. A Cornish Minister appointed under this section who resign ceases to hold office immediately.
  7. This section applies to Deputy Cornish Ministers as well.

Section 21 Staff

  1. The Cornish Minister may appoint persons to be members of the staff of the Cornish Government.
  2. Service as a member of staff of the Cornish Government is service in the civil service of the State.
  3. The Cornish Ministers are to pay salaries and expenses of the member of staff of the Cornish Government.

Section 21a Remuneration

  1. Provisions must be made for the payment of salaries, pensions, gratitudes, allowances to any person to whom this section applies.
  2. This section applies to—
    1. the First Minister,
    2. every Cornish Minister appointed under section 20,
    3. every Deputy Cornish Minister, and
    4. every member of staff of the Cornish Government.

Section 22 Executive Ministerial Functions

  1. Executive ministerial functions, so far as exercisable within devolved competence, are exercisable by the Cornish Ministers.
  2. Executive ministerial functions that are ancillary to a function of the Cornish Ministers exercised outside devolved competence are also exercisable by the Cornish Ministers.
  3. Functions exercisable by the Cornish Ministers under subsection (1) or (2) are not exercisable by a Minister of the Crown unless they are functions to which subsection (4) applies. If they are functions to which subsection (4) applies, they are exercisable by the Cornish Ministers concurrently with any relevant Minister of the Crown.
  4. This subsection applies to—
    1. functions ancillary to a function of the Cornish Ministers that is exercisable concurrently or jointly with a Minister of the Crown;
    2. functions ancillary to a function of a Minister of the Crown;
    3. functions that are not ancillary to another function;
    4. functions in relation to observing and implementing obligations under EU law.
  5. The Cornish Ministers, the First Minister and the Counsel General may make appropriate representations about any matter affecting Cornwall.

Section 23 Royal Assent

  1. It is for the Presiding Officer to submit Bills for Royal Assent.
  2. The Presiding Officer may not submit a Bill in its unamended form for Royal Assent if the Supreme Court has decided any provision of it would not be within the Senedh’s legislative competence.
  3. A Bill receives Royal Assent when Letters Patent under the Cornish Seal signed with Her Majesty’s own hand signifying Her Assent are notified to the Clerk.
  4. The Keeper of the Cornish Seal (see section 24(2)) must make arrangements to send the Letters Patent to the Kresen Kernow.
  5. The date of Royal Assent is to be written on the Act of the Senedh by the Clerk, and forms part of the Act.
  6. On the copy of the Act of the Senedh on which the Clerk writes the date of Royal Assent the Clerk must write—
    1. the calendar year, and
    2. any prefix and number which has been assigned to that Act of the Senedh.

Section 24 Cornish Seal

  1. There is to be a Cornish Seal.
  2. The First Minister is to be the Keeper of the Cornish Seal.
  3. Her Majesty may by Order in Council make provision as to—
    1. the form and manner of preparation, and
    2. the publication,
    of Letters Patent signed with Her Majesty’s own hand signifying Her Assent to a Bill passed by the Senedh and all royal proclamations which have passed under the Cornish Seal.
  4. A statutory instrument containing an Order in Council under subsection (3) is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of the Senedh.

Part 4 Taxation

Section 25 Introductory

  1. This section applies where an Act of the Cornish Parliament establishes a body that is to be responsible for the collection and management of devolved taxes.
  2. Her Majesty may by Order in Council amend this Part so as to—
    1. specify, as an additional devolved tax, a tax of any description, or
    2. make any other modifications of the provisions relating to devolved taxes which She considers appropriate.
  3. No recommendation is to be made to Her Majesty in Council to make an Order in Council under this section unless a draft of the statutory instrument containing the Order has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament of the United Kingdom and the Senedh.

Section 26 Income Tax

  1. The Senedh may by resolution resolve an additional tax rate to be charged on the income of Cornish taxpayers.
  2. For any tax year, a Cornish taxpayer is an individual who—
    1. spends more days of that year in Cornish than any other part of the UK,
    2. is a member of the Senedh,
    3. is a member of the European Parliament for Cornwall,
    4. or is a member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for a constituency in Cornwall.

Part 5 Short Title, Commencement and Extent

Section 27 Contingent Referendum

  1. A referendum will be held in Cornwall with the question: “Should the Cornwall Act 2021 proposed by HM Government go into effect?”
  2. The options on the ballot paper will be “Yes” and “No”.
  3. The Government will hold this referendum at a time decided by the cabinet.
  4. The terms of this bill will not go into effect until and unless over 50% of votes cast are cast for ‘yes’.

Section 28 Extent

This act applies to Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Section 29 Short Title

This act may be cited as the Cornwall Act 2021.

Section 30 Commencement

This act comes into force upon royal assent

Schedule 1 Reserved matters

  1. The matters to which any of the Parts of this Schedule apply are reserved matters for the purposes of this Act.

Part 1 General Reservations

The Constitution

  1. The following aspects of the constitution are reserved matters, that is—
    1. the Crown, including succession to the Crown and a regency,
    2. the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Foreign affairs etc.

  1. International relations, including relations with territories outside the United Kingdom, the European Union, and other international organisations, and regulation of international trade are reserved matters.

Public service

  1. The Civil Service of the State is a reserved matter.

Defence

  1. The following are reserved matters—
    1. the defence of the realm,
    2. the naval, military, or air forces of the Crown, including reserve forces,
    3. visiting forces,
    4. international headquarters and defence organisations,
    5. trading with the enemy and enemy property.

Treason

  1. Treason (including constructive reason), treason felony, and misprision of treason are reserved matters.

Part 2 Specific Reservations

Financial and Economic Matters

  1. Fiscal, economic, and monetary policy, including the issue and circulation of money, taxes except devolved taxes, government borrowing and lending, control over United Kingdom public expenditure, the exchange rate and the Bank of England.
  2. Coinage, legal tender, and bank notes.
  3. Financial markets, including listing and public offers of securities and investments, transfer of securities and insider dealing.
  4. The subject-matter of the Money Laundering Regulations 1993, but in relation to any type of business.

Home Affairs

  1. The subject-matter of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971
  2. The subject-matter of the Data Protection Act 1998
  3. Elections for membership of the House of Commons and the European Parliament.
  4. The subject-matter of the Firearms Acts 1968 to 1997.
  5. Nationality; immigration, including asylum and the status and capacity of persons in the United Kingdom who are not British citizens; free movement of persons within the European Economic Area; issue of travel documents.
  6. The subject matter of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986.
  7. National security.
  8. The subject-matter of the Official Secrets Act 1911 and 1920.
  9. Emergency powers.
  10. Extradition.
  11. The subject matter of the Lieutenancies Act 1997

Trade and Industry

  1. Regulation of anti-competitive practices and agreements; abuse of dominant position; monopolies and mergers.
  2. Intellectual property.
  3. The subject-matter of the Import, Export and Customs Powers (Defence) Act 1939.
  4. Regulation of sea fishing outside the Cornish zone (except in relation to Cornish fishing boats).
  5. Units and standards of weight and measurement.
  6. The subject-matter of Part II of the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949 (electromagnetic disturbance).

Energy

  1. Generation, transmission, distribution and supply of electricity.
  2. The subject-matter of Part I of the Environmental Protection Act 1990.
  3. Coal, including its ownership and exploitation, deep and opencast coal mining and coal mining subsidence.

Transport

  1. The subject matter of—
  2. Part I of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, and
  3. the Radioactive Substances Act 1993.
  4. The subject-matter of the Energy Act 1976, other than section 9.
  5. The subject-matter of—
  6. the Motor Vehicles (International Circulation) Act 1952,
  7. the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981 and the Transport Act 1985, so far as relating to public service vehicle operator licensing,
  8. the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994,
  9. the Road Traffic (New Drivers) Act 1995, and
  10. the Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Act 1995.
  11. Transport of radioactive material.

Rail Transport

  1. Provision and regulation of railway services
  2. Rail transport security
  3. The subject-matter of the Channel Tunnel Act 1987.
  4. The subject-matter of the Railway Heritage Act 1996.

Air Transport

  1. Regulation of aviation and air transport, including the subject-matter of—
  2. the Carriage by Air Act 1961,
  3. the Carriage by Air (Supplementary Provisions) Act 1962,
  4. the Carriage by Air and Road Act 1979 so far as relating to carriage by air,
  5. the Civil Aviation Act 1982,
  6. the Aviation Security Act 1982,
  7. the Airports Act 1986, and
  8. sections 1 (endangering safety at aerodromes) and 48 (powers in relation to certain aircraft) of the Aviation and Maritime Security Act 1990,

Social Security

  1. The subject-matter of the Child Support Acts 1991 and 1995.
  2. Schemes for the payment of pensions for or in respect of persons who have a disablement or have died in consequence of service as members of the armed forces of the Crown.
  3. The subject-matter of any scheme under the Personal Injuries (Emergency Provisions) Act 1939, sections 3 to 5 and 7 of the Pensions (Navy, Army, Air Force and Mercantile Marine) Act 1939 or section 1 of the Polish Resettlement Act 1947.

Employment

  1. The subject-matter of Part I of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
  2. The subject-matter of the Disabled Persons (Employment) Act 1944
  3. The subject-matter of the Employment and Training Act 1973, except so far as relating to training for employment.

Health and Medicines

  1. Regulation of the health professions.
  2. Abortion.
  3. Surrogacy arrangements, within the meaning of the Surrogacy Arrangements Act 1985, including the subject-matter of that Act.
  4. The subject-matter of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990.
  5. Human genetics
  6. Xenotransplantation.
  7. The subject-matter of the Medicines Act 1968.
  8. The subject-matter of the Poisons Act 1972.
  9. The subject-matter of the Biological Standards Act 1975

Health and safety

  1. The subject-matter of Part 1 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974.
  2. The Health and Safety Executive and the Employment Medical Advisory Service.
  3. Protection of the public from radiation.

Miscellaneous

  1. Equal opportunities.
  2. Control of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons and other weapons of mass destruction.
  3. Timescales, time zones and the subject-matter of the Summer Time Act 1972.
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