Proceeds of Crime Bill – in a Public Bill Committee am 6:00 pm ar 4 Rhagfyr 2001.
Mr George Foulkes
Minister of State, Scottish Office, Minister of State (Scotland Office)
6:00,
4 Rhagfyr 2001
I beg to move Amendment No. 50, in page 51, line 31, leave out from 'security' to end of line 32.
Mr Bill O'Brien
Llafur, Normanton
With this it will be convenient to take Government amendments Nos. 133 and 267.
Mr George Foulkes
Minister of State, Scottish Office, Minister of State (Scotland Office)
My hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department has done a superb job, and he deserves our congratulations—and a little rest, which is why I am moving these amendments.
The amendments, to parts 2, 3 and 4 respectively, will ensure that leases that are not long are not included in the definition of an interest in Scotland. They are required to bring clauses 84, 235 and 329 in line with the definition of ''interest'' in subsection (1) of Clause 310.
Clause 84, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill.
Clauses 85 to 93 ordered to stand part of the Bill.
Further consideration adjourned.—[Mrs. McGuire.]
Adjourned accordingly at ten minutes past Six o'clock till Thursday 6 December at five minutes to Nine o'clock.
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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.
