The second part to how a law is passed through Parliament.
Report Stage: After the piece of law has been through an immense amount of analysis by MP’s or peers it is then sent back to the entire Chamber for the person who started it to ‘report’ all the changed to it to everyone else. They then have to decide whether the changes are correct and vote it through if not, they can get rid.
Third Reading: This is basically the last debate about the legislation going though, it is usually quick because most people would have had their say in the second reading (main debate). It will usually go through at this point unless support fails for it or it was very problematic in the committee or report stage.
After all this the Bill has to now go through the other house. If the Bill was started in the House of Commons it then goes to the House of Lords, if started in the House of Lords, it then goes to the House of Commons. In the other House it goes: First Reading, Second Reading, Committee Stage, Report Stage, Third Reading. Of course the House of Lords is completely different and may not like the Bill, they can either do two things in this situation. They are able to hold the Bill for a year hoping that it is not needed in a year’s time but meaning that the House of Commons alone can pass it straight away after the year or they can keep sending it back to the House of Commons for amending making a ‘ping pong’ effect.
The last stage is Royal Assent, this means the Queen signing the Bill to officially make it a law, the law is made official from midnight on that night.
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