Adoption and Children Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 10:30 am on 18 December 2001.
Mrs Marion Roe
Conservative, Broxbourne
10:30,
18 December 2001
Under the terms of the programme resolution, we now come to Clause 9.
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.
