Part of Proceeds of Crime Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 6:45 pm on 18 December 2001.
Anne McGuire
The Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury
6:45,
18 December 2001
May I ask you to use your good offices to make arrangements for better heating in this Room, so that we can all see the Bill through to the bitter end, Mr. Gale? Otherwise I will be forced to spend the holidays gathering peat.
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.
