– in a Public Bill Committee am ar 4 Chwefror 2015.
Katy Clark
Llafur, North Ayrshire and Arran
9:00,
4 Chwefror 2015
Good morning everyone. No amendments have been tabled to the Bill, so we will begin with a debate on Clause 1. I suggest that Committee members make any remarks they have about clauses 2, 3 and 4 during that debate. In other words, we will have a general debate about the contents of the Bill on the question that clause 1 stand part. If the Committee is content with that suggestion, I will put the question that clauses 2, 3 and 4 stand part of the Bill formally once we have completed consideration of clause 1, on the basis that those parts of the Bill will have already been debated. Is that agreeable?
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.
