Part of Proceeds of Crime Bill – in a Public Bill Committee am 4:30 pm ar 18 Rhagfyr 2001.
Bob Ainsworth
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
4:30,
18 Rhagfyr 2001
We are discussing provisions where a bona fide purchaser for value is completely protected: we are dealing with property that has become mixed with recoverable property. The hon. Gentleman appears to be suggesting that we can completely ignore the enforcement authority's rights, when it is seeking to deal with such property, even to the point where it does not matter—according to my reading of subsection (6)—that the enforcement authority's rights are unduly prejudiced. That does not matter to him, and he is suggesting that that is fair.
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.
