Form of Bills

(1) The Clerk shall be responsible for preparing each Bill for the printer from the draft handed in to him by the Member in Charge of the Bill, and shall satisfy himself– (a) that the Bill is divided into successive clauses numbered consecutively; (b) that the Bill has in the margin a short summary of each clause; and (c) that the provisions of the Bill do not appear to go beyond its title. (2) A Bill may be accompanied by a short explanatory statement of its contents.