Orders of the Day — War Charges (Validity — No. 2) BILL. – in the House of Commons at on 14 May 1924.
Sir Herbert Nield
, Ealing
I beg to move, "That the Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to sit again."
I have rather a long argument to develop, and I do not wish to give part of it now, and the remainder on a subsequent occasion.
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.
