Part of Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 4:30 pm on 20 January 2005.
Nigel Evans
Conservative, Ribble Valley
4:30,
20 January 2005
In many cases, political parties find that they do not have to take down their posters because someone else has already done it for them.
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.
