Part of Road Safety Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 4:30 pm on 1 February 2005.
Christopher Chope
Conservative, Christchurch
4:30,
1 February 2005
Why is it that we allow foreign vehicles to have indistinguishable number plates while we impose draconian penalties, not only on the people who are using number plates that do not comply with our own regulations but on those who supply them?
A parliamentary bill is divided into sections called clauses.
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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.
