Part of Adoption and Children Bill – in a Public Bill Committee am 10:15 am ar 17 Ionawr 2002.
Mr Hilton Dawson
Llafur, Lancaster and Wyre
10:15,
17 Ionawr 2002
Will my hon. Friend reconsider that remark? There are myriad ways in which friends and neighbours take on child minding. The child minding regulations have no effect of preventing those arrangements.
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.
