Part of Finance Bill – in a Public Bill Committee am 5:15 pm ar 19 Mehefin 2012.
Peter Bone
Ceidwadwyr, Wellingborough
5:15,
19 Mehefin 2012
With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:
That schedule 22 be the Twenty-second schedule to the Bill.
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.