Part of Orders of the Day — Ministry of Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill. – in the House of Commons at on 8 December 1920.
(3) The foregoing provisions of this Section shall be deemed to form part of Part II of the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890, and without prejudice to any power of the Minister under Section ten of the Housing, Town Planning, &c., Act, 1909, any non-compliance by a local authority with any requirements of this Section or any Regulation made thereunder shall be a de fault which may be dealt with under Section eleven of the last cited Act, and the provitions of that Section shall extend accord ingly.—[Mr. Allen Parkinson.]
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.
Ministers make up the Government and almost all are members of the House of Lords or the House of Commons. There are three main types of Minister. Departmental Ministers are in charge of Government Departments. The Government is divided into different Departments which have responsibilities for different areas. For example the Treasury is in charge of Government spending. Departmental Ministers in the Cabinet are generally called 'Secretary of State' but some have special titles such as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Ministers of State and Junior Ministers assist the ministers in charge of the department. They normally have responsibility for a particular area within the department and are sometimes given a title that reflects this - for example Minister of Transport.
