Part of Criminal Justice Bill – in a Public Bill Committee am 4:15 pm ar 4 Chwefror 2003.
John Mann
Llafur, Bassetlaw
4:15,
4 Chwefror 2003
In the spirit of my hon. Friend's response, will he say whether, for drug treatment and testing orders given as community sentences, the medical profession ought to make the reports rather than probation officers working as psychologists deeming to make medical interpretation on people's conditions?
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.
