Part of Offender Management Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 3:45 pm on 18 January 2007.
Peter Atkinson
Conservative, Hexham
3:45,
18 January 2007
I shall come back to the hon. and learned Gentleman after I have taken advice, as this is uncharted territory.
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.
