Introduction
Lawmaker can create traditionally formatted amendments from changes made to the text of the bill. This can make drafting amendments easier and often a quicker process. The traditional amendments that are generated can be submitted to the relevant Parliament for tabling/lodging.
How to get started
From the
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Amendment Workspace
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tab, click on the + New button in the top right
Select 'Inline'
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The system will ask you to provide the following information:
Check the correct bill version is selected
Select the House (applicable to UK bills only)
Select the stage
Provide a unique list name
Select the proposer
When you have added the necessary details, click on the Create button
The system create a copy of the bill version you selected and open it in the Editor
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You can now record your inline amendments (each inline document can contain one or more amendments) |
How to create inline amendments
To create 'Insert text' type amendments:
Place your cursor were you want to insert the new amendment
From the Amendment tools menu, select insert
Press the Enter key to bring up the insert menu, and
Select 'Insert text'
Type in the new text
To insert new structure e.g. Clauses, subsections, etc:
From the Amendment tools menu, select insert
Press 'Enter' to bring up the insert menu, and
select the appropriate provision and enter your new Clause, etc,
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and fill in the usual information in the dialog box
A new tab will open with a copy of the bill in the Editor ready to start amending
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If you are amending a large bill, the recommended approach is to edit a portion of the document at a time. To do this, create the inline document following the steps above for How to get started and close the document once it has finished loading in the new Editor tab. Back on the Amendment Workspace tab, select Actions > Edit portion of document and this will only open the selected portion of your document, improving performance when drafting amendments inline. |
How to create inline amendments
You can create ‘insert’, ‘leave out’ and ‘substitute’ amendments using the inline feature. It is not possible to create ‘divide’, ‘transpose/move’ or amendments to amendments.
Once you have created an inline amendment a card appears in the Inline Amendments right-hand panel showing what type of amendment it is and the name of the member.
When you save your inline amendments, each amendment will be assigned a unique number (DNumber) which appears on the card in the right-hand panel, but also after the inline amendment in your document.
Only when you have saved your inline amendments can you view them in traditional format.
You can only submit amendments from the traditional view
How to create 'Insert' type amendments
Insert text amendments e.g. a word or sentence in an existing provision
Place your cursor where you want to insert the new text
Press Enter to bring up the insert menu and select Insert text
A new ‘text’ placeholder element will appear, surrounded in square brackets allowing you to type in the new text
Inserting new provisions e.g. new subsection(s)
Place your cursor where you want to insert the new provision
Press Enter to bring up the insert menu and select the appropriate provision
An empty provision will be inserted in the next valid place after the cursor location, surrounded in square brackets, allowing you to type in the new text
How to create 'Leave out' type amendments
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Highlight the text or provision(s) that you want to leave out
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(use the structure view or breadcrumb to help you select whole provisions)
You can either:
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From the floating tool bar, select Leave out, or (if the floating tool bar
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doesn’t appear - and it won’t if you select using the structure view or breadcrumb)
From Inline Amendment Tools in the right-hand panel
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, select Leave out
The text/structure you selected will be highlighted in red and struck out with a start and end square bracket denoting the extent of the leave out amendment
How to create 'Substitute' type amendments
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Highlight the text or provision
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(s) that you want to leave out
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(use the structure view or breadcrumb to help you select whole provisions)
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From the floating tool bar, select Substitute, or (if the floating tool bar
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click on the 'Substitute' button on the 'Inline Amendment Tools' right-hand panel if the floating tool bar doesn't appear
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doesn’t appear - and it won’t if you select using the structure view or breadcrumb)
From Inline Amendment Tools in the right-hand panel, select Substitute
The text/structure you selected will be highlighted in red and struck out with a start and end square bracket denoting the extent of the leave out part of the substitute amendment. Additionally an empty element will be inserted allowing you to insert text/provision depending on what you leave out:
if you left out a whole provision, the same provision will be automatically inserted for you after the left out provision (i.e. a direct substitution)
if you left out some text, a 'Text' placeholder will appear after the text that you left out, ready for you to add substitution text. You can continue adding further provisions after the text if required
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if you left out a combination of text and provisions:
if the selection to be left out starts with text followed by provisions then a 'Text' placeholder will be inserted after the last left out provision. You can continue adding further provisions after the text if required.
if the selection to be left out starts with provisions followed by text, then the same kind of provision that is being left out will be inserted after the end of the leave out selection, and the trailing text in the last provision will be moved into that newly inserted provision after the 'Text' placeholder.
Hints and tips
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Hints and tips
To view the traditional amendments, you need to click on the 'View Traditional Amendments' button on the 'Inline Amendment Tools' right-hand panel after you have saved your changes
The floating tool bar doesn't appear if select whole provisions using the structure view or breadcrumb, you need to click on the options on the 'Inline Amendment Tools' right-hand panel.
Warning markers
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How to view your inline document in traditional amendment format
Once you have saved all changes in your inline document, from Inline Amendment Tools in the right-hand panel, select View Traditional Amendments
A new tab will open with a LoDA showing all your inline amendments in traditional format.
How to update Member information from inline documents
From the Inline Amendment Tools in the right-hand panel, select Manage Members
You can add or remove proposers and supporters and this will update all amendments in the inline document
The recommendation is to update Members when the amendments are in traditional format using existing Member editing tools as this will be a more efficient tool.
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