Banking (Special Provisions) Bill [Ways and Means] – in the House of Commons at 7:50 pm on 19 February 2008.
Michael Lord
Deputy Speaker (Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means)
7:50,
19 February 2008
I must inform the Committee that an informal list of proposed amendments is available from the Vote Office and a provisional revised selection has been circulated. The amendments are technically manuscript amendments. I will refer to them by the numbers given on the informal paper.
Clause 1 ordered to stand part of the Bill.
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.
