Part of Proceeds of Crime Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 11:15 am on 22 November 2001.
David Wilshire
Conservative, Spelthorne
11:15,
22 November 2001
We shall see what the record says. I wrote down what I thought I heard-
It being twenty-five minutes past Eleven o'clock, The Chairman adjourned the Committee without Question put, pursuant to the Standing Order.
Adjourned till this day at half-past Two o'clock. {**vert_rule**}
A parliamentary bill is divided into sections called clauses.
Printed in the margin next to each clause is a brief explanatory `side-note' giving details of what the effect of the clause will be.
During the committee stage of a bill, MPs examine these clauses in detail and may introduce new clauses of their own or table amendments to the existing clauses.
When a bill becomes an Act of Parliament, clauses become known as sections.
