Part of Adoption and Children Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 4:45 pm on 10 January 2002.
Henry Bellingham
Conservative, North West Norfolk
4:45,
10 January 2002
Subsection (2)(a) mentions regulations that
are to be made by the Scottish Ministers'', but the Bill's provisions extend only to Scotland and Wales—
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.
