Part of Orders of the Day — Finance Bill – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 10 June 1947.
Mr William Hall
, Colne Valley
12:00,
10 June 1947
This is a very short Clause, and I thought we might have got it without any discussion, because its meaning is plain on the face of it. The Clause seeks to authorise the receipt, by certain manufacturers, of sugar, duty-free, which is used by them for making certain articles—
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.
