Part of Orders of the Day — Indian Independence Bill – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 14 July 1947.
Mr Hartley Shawcross
, St Helens
12:00,
14 July 1947
—for each Dominion separately—the existing Federal Court established under the 1935 Act will not continue to function. The High Court will continue to operate in each Dominion until they have had an opportunity of deciding to what extent any particular provision of the 1935 Act in these regards should be altered.
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.
