– in a Public Bill Committee at on 6 December 2001.
Jimmy Hood
Chair, European Scrutiny Committee, Chair, European Scrutiny Committee
9:30,
6 December 2001
At its sitting on Tuesday afternoon, the Committee had completed consideration of Clause 105. Under the programme resolution, the next item to be considered is clause 63, to which no amendments have been tabled.
Clause 63 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.
