Part of UK Borders Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 10:00 am on 15 March 2007.
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.
To allow another Member to speak.
Kitty Ussher
PPS (Rt Hon Margaret Hodge MBE, Minister of State), Department of Trade and Industry