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A reading of a bill is a stage of debate on the bill held by a general body of a legislature.. In the Westminster system, developed in the United Kingdom, there are generally three readings of a bill as it passes through the stages of becoming, or failing to become, legislation.
This is a list of acts of the 2nd session of the 58th Parliament of the United Kingdom, which ran from 11 May 2021 [1] until 28 April 2022. [ 2 ] Acts passed since 1963 are cited by calendar year, [ 3 ] as opposed to the convention used for earlier acts of citing the regnal year(s) in which the relevant parliamentary session was held. [ 4 ]
Normally, the Second Reading of a Government bill is approved. A defeat for a Government bill on this Reading usually signifies a major loss. The last time this happened was at the second reading of the Shops Bill for the government of Margaret Thatcher in 1986. The bill, which liberalised controls on Sunday trading, was defeated in the Commons ...
It received its formal first reading on 26 January 1999. [1] The bill sought to transfer the power to authorise military strikes against Iraq from the monarch to Parliament . The long title of the bill was "A Bill to require the prior approval, by a simple majority of the House of Commons, of military action by United Kingdom forces against ...
The Bill will proceed through seven stages of the legislative process which happens in both houses of the UK parliament: first reading, second reading, committee stage, report stage, third reading, opposite house and royal assent. July 17th Bill announced. [1] Stage: Pre-legislative Scrutiny (current).
Each piece of legislation passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom ("Westminster") is known as an Act of Parliament. Each modern Act of Parliament has a title (also known as a "long title") and a short title. A short title provides a convenient name for referring to an individual Act, such as "Jamaica Independence Act 1962".
This is a list of acts of the 2nd session of the 57th Parliament of the United Kingdom, which ran from 14 October 2019 [1] until 6 November 2019. [ 2 ] Acts passed since 1963 are cited by calendar year, [ 3 ] as opposed to the convention used for earlier acts of citing the regnal year(s) in which the relevant parliamentary session was held. [ 4 ]
The first reading (introduction) of the bill in the House of Commons took place on 13 December 2012. [42] Passage of an Allocation of Time motion, the second reading, and the committee stage (in the form of a Committee of the Whole House) took place on 22 January 2013. [43] The report stage and third reading (passage) took place on 28 January ...