Part of Planning and Compulsory Purchase (Re-committed) Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 10:30 am on 16 October 2003.
Sir Sydney Chapman
Conservative, Chipping Barnet
10:30,
16 October 2003
My hon. Friend will be interested to know that fuel allotments have not yet reached Chipping Barnet. I am sure that they will set the place alight when they do.
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.
