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Public general acts form the largest category of legislation, in principle affecting the public general law applying to everyone across the entire United Kingdom, or at least to one or more of its constituent countries of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, or Wales. [3] Most public general acts proceed through Parliament as a public bill.
57 acts of Parliament were passed in 2023; all were public general acts. indicates that an act is available to view at legislation.gov.uk, and indicates the location of the original act in the Parliamentary Archives.
The sitting times for debate are 9.30am until 2.30pm; the debates for each bill must be concluded before 2.30pm in order to progress to the next stage of the bill passage. If the debate has not concluded before the time has run out, it will be moved to the bottom of the list of bills to be read and rescheduled for another time.
50 acts of Parliament were passed in 2022: 48 public general acts and 2 local acts. indicates that an act is available to view at legislation.gov.uk, and indicates the location of the original act in the Parliamentary Archives.
An Act to authorise expenditure for certain agricultural and other purposes; to make provision about direct payments following the United Kingdom's departure from the European Union and about payments in response to exceptional market conditions affecting agricultural markets; to confer power to modify retained direct EU legislation relating to ...
An Act to make provision about a Commissioner for Patient Safety in relation to human medicines and medical devices; confer power to amend or supplement the law relating to human medicines, veterinary medicines and medical devices; make provision about the enforcement of regulations, and the protection of health and safety, in relation to ...
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Members of the public can make written submissions to public bill committees after the Second Reading debate, by emailing the Scrutiny Unit. [ 3 ] The composition of the committee is roughly proportional to that of the House itself, so it is rare that amendments are accepted that are contrary to a majority Government's wishes.