Part of Criminal Justice and Police Bill – in a Public Bill Committee am 10:00 am ar 15 Chwefror 2001.
Mr David Lock
Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department
10:00,
15 Chwefror 2001
I do not need to follow the hon. Gentleman's suggestion because subsection (4)(a) provides for such a summons to be treated
``as properly issued on the information by a justice of the peace for the area for which the magistrates' court notified as the court of trial acts, requiring A to appear before that court to answer to that information''.
It is clear that that would be the court local to the area in which an offence is committed.
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.
