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Political Parties and Elections Act 2009

The Act ensures greater transparency of political donations and reinforces the arrangements for regulating candidate expenditure.

The Act makes several other reforms. These include:

• enabling relevant elected office-holders to appoint a person to act as a compliance officer
• letting candidates at a parliamentary election choose whether their home address appears on election documents or not
• extending the Secretary of State’s power to include additional provisions in an Order establishing a Coordinated Online Record of Electors (CORE) scheme
• inserting a new section in the Electoral Administration Act 2006 so that the Secretary of State may establish a new corporation to run the CORE scheme
• arranging for the phased implementation of individual electoral registration in Great Britain to include additional identifying information on a voluntary basis from 2010-15 and compulsorily from 2015 once positively endorsed by the Electoral Commission and Parliament.
  

The Bill was introduced in the House of Commons on 3 July 2008 and received Royal Assent on 21 July 2009.

 

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