Part of Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 10:15 am on 1 February 2005.
Eric Forth
Conservative, Bromley and Chislehurst
10:15,
1 February 2005
Order. I, in turn, yield to nobody in my admiration for Lady Thatcher, but I do not think that she should play any part in this Committee's deliberations—at least not today.
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.
