Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Health – in the House of Commons at 2:45 pm on 27 November 2012.
Jacob Rees-Mogg
Conservative, North East Somerset
2:45,
27 November 2012
indicated dissent .
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.
