Bills: Citation and numbering
To follow OSCOLA guidance, cite a Parliamentary Bill by its name, whether it is a House of Commons Bill (HC Bill) or from the House of Lords (HL Bill), the Parliamentary session and the running number assigned to the Bill. House of Commons Bills are numbered within square brackets.
For example:
Consumer Credit HC Bill (2005-06) [2]
Equality HL Bill (2005-06) 2
Bills may be amended as they go through the legislative process in Parliament, and when this happens, the new version of the Bill is given a new number.
Useful tools for tracking the progress of Bills are:
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