Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 9:10 am on 13 January 2005.
Caroline Flint
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
9:10,
13 January 2005
I beg to move Amendment No. 31, in Clause 54, page 29, leave out lines 17 and 18 and insert 'Revenue and Customs Prosecutor.'.
Welcome to our proceedings, Mr. O'Brien. I hope that we shall make as much progress as we did on Tuesday.
Amendment No. 31 is a textual amendment to reflect the type of Customs and Revenue protection being set up in the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Bill.
Amendment agreed to.
Clause 54, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill.
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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.
