Types of bills Flashcards
What is the legislative process (GWDFSCRTOR)
“Green winged dragons fly slowly clockwise round the old ruin”
Green paper, white paper, draft bill, first reading, second hearing, committee Stage, report Stage, third reading, other house, royal assent
What are BIlls?
Draft pieces of legislation created by lawyers working in the civil service for government departments
What are public Bills?
Vast majority of bills are introduced to parliament by government and are known as public bills.
These affect the whole country or a large section of it
What are examples of public bills?
Legal Services Act 2007 and Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015
What are private members bills?
Where a bill can be introduced by an individual MP who is not part of the government, they can be from any political party and are known as ‘backbechers’
Bills introduced under the ballot procedure or the ‘ten-minute rule’
What are some examples of laws that started as Private members bills?
Abortion act 1967 and the Marriage act 1994
What do private members bills affect?
They only affect individual people or corporations. A recent example being the Faversham Oyster Fishery Company BIll 2016
What are hybrid bills?
A cross between Public and private Bills.
They are introduced by the government but only affect a particular person, organisation or place
What are examples of Hybrid bills?
The Crossrail and HS2 Acts that allow for the construction of new underground and high speed rail lines
