Background & Introduction
Legal numbering was made available to Lawmaker with the release of version 15.0 in August 2023. It was developed for Court Rules, but is available in all types of SI\SSIs and Bills, across jurisdictionsBy “legal numbering” we mean numbers that consist of two or more numeric components separated by a full stop, e.g. 1.2, 3.5, 13.2A. We’ve called it legal numbering because it is a style of numbering commonly used in legal documents. In legislation, legal numbering is most commonly used in court rules but also sometimes appears in EU legislation.
Lawmaker supports the legal numbering style for SI regulations and articles and schedule paragraphs. It can also be used for Bill sections.
The numbering for these provisions by default continues to be the standard style (e.g. 1., 2., 3. etc. or 1, 2, 3 etc.) but you can manually change the numbering to the legal numbering style and Lawmaker will respect that when renumbering or adding new provisions.
To use legal numbering, create a new SI/SSI as normal and insert your first provision.
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