Part of Orders of the Day — Financial Services and Markets Bill – in the House of Commons at 7:30 pm on 1 February 2000.
Mr Howard Flight
Conservative, Arundel and South Downs
7:30,
1 February 2000
The issue that my hon. Friend the Member for East Worthing and Shoreham (Mr. Loughton) raised will arise under new Clause 2, so it is exactly the same territory.
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.
