Part of Orders of the Day — Financial Services and Markets Bill – in the House of Commons at 7:30 pm on 1 February 2000.
Mr Howard Flight
Conservative, Arundel and South Downs
7:30,
1 February 2000
I have one question for the Economic Secretary: who will define what is incidental—and therefore exempt—and what is not? Will it be the Treasury, which has to specify what is a regulated activity under Clause 20?
A parliamentary bill is divided into sections called clauses.
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When a bill becomes an Act of Parliament, clauses become known as sections.
