Part of Orders of the Day — Public Works Loans Bill. – in the House of Commons at on 6 December 1920.
Mr Stanley Baldwin
, Bewdley
I beg to move, in Sub section (2), to leave out the words "the rate applicable to" and to insert instead thereof the words, "so long as the rate which shall be fixed by the Treasury in the case of."
A parliamentary bill is divided into sections called clauses.
Printed in the margin next to each clause is a brief explanatory `side-note' giving details of what the effect of the clause will be.
During the committee stage of a bill, MPs examine these clauses in detail and may introduce new clauses of their own or table amendments to the existing clauses.
When a bill becomes an Act of Parliament, clauses become known as sections.
