Part of Office of Communications Bill [Lords] – in a Public Bill Committee at 5:00 pm on 5 February 2002.
Roger Gale
Vice-Chair, Conservative Party
5:00,
5 February 2002
Order. The BBC is not part of the Bill and we have had this debate about four times already.
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.
