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Towards the end of the final stage, a consolidated list of amendments can be generated, pulling together all the agreed amendments from all stages in the 2nd House that are either agreed, or highly likely to be agreed once the final stage is completed. It’s often generated a day or two early to give OPC enough time to review it before it is sent to the originating House for publishing.

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This is a 2-step process:

1. First copy all the agreed (or likely to be agreed) amendments to ‘ping pong’ stage, and

2. Finally, generate the Consolidated List, updating the amendments in it as normal.

How to copy the agreed (or likely to be agreed) amendments to ‘Ping Pong’ stage

1. Start with current bill version: from the Amendment Manager select using the checkboxes all ‘agreed’ amendments (tip: use the filters here); or any amendments that are likely to be agreed.

2. Copy the amendments to ping pong stage by selecting Amendment Actions > Move/copy to a different stage (for more information seeMoving or copying amendments to a different stage (including ping pong motions) )

3. In the dialog box:

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      Select “Copy amendments to a different stage”

   2. Select Ping Pong for stage

   3. Bill version should be “As brought from…” version

   4. Click on Confirm button when ready

4. The amendments will be copied to ping pong stage and you will be able to view them by selecting the correct bill version filter in the top-left of the page (in this case, the “As brought from…” stage). They will be ‘Draft’ status and won’t have a proposer.

5. Repeat steps 1-4 above for any other amending stage in the 2nd House if they had there were also agreed amendments there.

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How to generate the Consolidated List

Once all amendments have been copied across to Ping Pong, it’s possible to generate the Consolidated List:

1. Select Amendment Manager > Create Official List

2. In the dialog box that appears, select ‘Consolidated List of Amendments’

3. Fill in the options on the dialog box and click on Create button

4. In newly created list in the Editor:

   1. Update the amendments in the list so that they point to the version of the Bill when it first entered the 2^nd House

   2. Merge, delete and move amendments around as required

   3. If you made changes to clause & schedule numbers as part of updating the amendments :

   4. Manually update the clause/schedule number in the interstitial heading, and

   Manually update the Provision cell in the Amendment Information right-hand panel with the new clause number (e.g. “sec_1”) or new schedule number (e.g. “sch_2”)

   also check that the associated interstitial heading needs updating as well,

   5. After you’ve finished updating the amendments, manually insert any missing interstitial headings where required (select Interstitial heading from the Insert Menu, making sure your cursor is in the ping pong motion before the location where the interstitial heading should be inserted)

   6. Renumber the amendments so that they are now numbered 1 to n (Tools > Renumber amendments)

   7. Save and close the list

5. Share the document version with the other House and let them know that it’s ready for them to prepare for publishing

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