Introduction Details of the Section
2.Subsection 3 substitutes a new section 50(2)(d) FA 1973, which provides that a resolution can have statutory effect for a maximum period of seven months.
3.Subsection 4 inserts new sub-sections (2A) to (2D) to section 50 FA 1973.  The effect is that, if Parliament is prorogued at the end of a session, a resolution will cease to have statutory effect; unless proceedings on a Bill containing an equivalent provision, which have begun but have not been completed, are to be resumed in the next session, and re-introduced in the first thirty sitting days.
4.New sub-section (2A) provides that new sub-section (2B) will apply where Parliament is prorogued at the end of a session and lists at (a) to (c), the specific circumstances.
5.New sub-section (2B) allows a resolution to retain its statutory effect, provided a Bill containing equivalent provisions is presented to the House within the first thirty sitting days of the next session.
6.New sub-section (2C) defines ‘sitting day’.
7.New sub-section (2D) makes it clear that if a Bill has been amended as envisaged in new sub-section (2A)(a), it does not matter if an order to resume the proceedings in the next session, is made before the amendment.