Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Legislation Process
- Bills
- Public Bills
- Effect the whole country
or a large selection of it.
- Private Bills
- affects individual
people of a corporation
- Private Member
- Sponsored by
individual MPs
- The Process
- Green Paper
- Consultation document
on possible new law
- White Paper
- Government's firm
proposal for new law
- First reading
- Formal introduction of
the Bill into the HOC
- Second reading
- Main debate on Bill's principle
- Committee Stage
- clause by clause consideration of the Bill
by a select committee around 16 - 30 MPs
- Report stage
- committee reports suggesed
amendments back to the HOC
- Third reading
- Final Debate on the Bill
- Repeat in HOL
- Parliament Acts
of 1911 and 1949
- Royal Assent
- a formality - normally an Act of Parliament will
come into force at midnight afte recieving the Royal
Assent or on some previously decided date