Opposition parties who helped shape the Federal Accountability Act are accusing the Conservative government of being less than accountable on implementing all parts of a key election pledge.

The act was successfully passed into law exactly one month ago, but not all elements of the act have gone into effect yet.

It's up to Prime Minister Stephen Harper's cabinet to put in place roughly half the measures included in the act  — or not.

Among the main elements the Tories haven't implemented yet are sections dealing with government ethics and lobbyists.

"You can't keep dining out on the fact that you've cleaned up Ottawa if you're not going to implement the key elements in the Accountability Act that are going to change the way you do things in Ottawa," MP Pat Martin, a New Democrat from Manitoba, told CBC News. 

During a press conference last week announcing the shuffling of his cabinet, Harper said passing the act was "done," but added there were still "some implementation phases" that have to be worked out.

Critics said at least one of the act's main objectives — the creation of an independent body to oversee appointments — is being ignored.

In December, the Harper government made 118 appointments, including naming former Nova Scotia Conservative premier John Hamm to be co-chair of Canada's reproductive technology board.

"To be going ahead and making appointments when this commission was promised … is really disregarding the spirit of the promise and the spirit of the Accountability Act," said Duff Conacher, a spokesman for the Ottawa-based advocacy organization Democracy Watch.

Pierre Poilievre, the parliamentary secretary responsible for pushing the act forward, said certain appointments can't wait, but pledged to have the commission in place before the next election.

"It's going to take some time to set up all the various oversight bodies that were contained in it," Poilievre told CBC News.

"We're on our way to getting it done and we'll have it ready before you know it."