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• Burials
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• Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007
• Cremation
• Data protection
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• Elections
  • General election 2010
  • European parliamentary elections (June 2009)
  • Electoral registration data standards
  • Keeling schedules
  • Secondary Legislation for Electoral Administration Act 2006
  • May 2007 electoral modernisation pilots and statutory orders
  • May 2006 election pilots
  • Acting returning officers' guidance
  • Local and regional elections
• EU funding
• Flu pandemic
• Forced labour
• Forced marriage
• Forms of address
• Freedom of information
• Funding for the victim and witness voluntary sector
• Human rights
• Justice impact test
• Mental Capacity Act 2005
• Mentally disordered offenders
• Pleural plaques former claimants payment scheme
• Referral orders
• Regulatory offences
• Rehabilitation of Offenders Act

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Local and regional elections

This includes responsibility for constitutional matters, devolution and electoral reform. Responsibility for the Electoral Commission, IPSA, and the Boundary Commissions has also transferred to the Cabinet Office.

The content below relates to the Ministry of Justices former responsibilities for this area.

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The Department for Communities and Local Government is responsible for policy relating to when local elections are to be held and the constitutions of the councils being elected.
Other electoral responsibilities across the UK are:

• The UK Government, in particular the Secretary of State for Scotland, has responsibility for the conduct and funding of elections to the Scottish Parliament.
• The Scottish Parliament and Executive are responsible for local government elections in Scotland, including electoral systems and the timing and administration of elections.
• The UK Government, in particular the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland has responsibility for electoral law relating to the Northern Ireland Assembly.
• The Northern Ireland Office has responsibility for all local elections in Northern Ireland.
• The UK Government, in particular the Secretary of State for Wales, has responsibility for electoral law relating to the National Assembly for Wales.