Daylight Saving Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 4:15 pm on 7 December 2011.
‘(1) The Secretary of State must, during the trial period, do one of the following—
(a) make an order under section [Power to abandon trial] (order abandoning trial);
(b) make an order under section [Power to advance time by one hour permanently] (order advancing time by one hour permanently);
(c) publish a notice that no order of the kind mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) is to be made.
(2) Where the Secretary of State publishes a notice under subsection (1)(c), the Secretary of State may by order make consequential, transitional, transitory or saving provision (including provision amending a relevant enactment) in relation to the expiry of the daylight saving order.
(3) An order under subsection (2) is subject to negative resolution procedure.’.—(Mr Davey.)
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.
Secretary of State was originally the title given to the two officials who conducted the Royal Correspondence under Elizabeth I. Now it is the title held by some of the more important Government Ministers, for example the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
