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Wednesday 12 September 2018

How does a bill turn into a Act?

A bill is an idea that is pasted through different stages to become an Act. It starts off with them introducing it to the House. They then had to past it down to the first reader who decides on keeping it or rejecting it. The next stages is the Select Committee. They carefully read and listen to the views of the public and interested organisations, recommend amendments, they then report it to the House. The second reader decides if the bill should proceed to the committee of the whole house. The fifth stage is pasted to the Committee of the whole house. The members debate the bill part by part in a detailed examination that can take several days. This is the stage were the last changes are made. The second to last stage is the third reader. In this final debate, MPs look at the bill as a whole and consider what will happen if the bill becomes a law. The last stages is the Royal assent, this stage is when the Governor-General signs the bill on behalf of the Sovereign. They agreed that it should become an Act of parliament and passed into a law.

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