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When you generate a Lords Marshalled List in Lawmaker, each of the previously un-published amendments will be assigned a number according to the numbering logic described below. Each of the If there are some previously published amendments they will retain the number it already has.In the following they have been assigned.
As a result, there is a need to add suffixes to amendment numbers where they appear between already-published amendments. The table below describes the numbering algorithm. In the table:
prevNum is the number of the previous amendment in the list
nextNum is the number of the next amendment that has already been published in the list
newNum is the number to be applied to the amendment being assigned a number
"increment of prevNum" means
if prevNum ends in a numeric value, increase the numeric component by 1, e.g. from "19" to "20" or from "A1" to "A2"
if prevNum ends in a letter, increment last letter to next letter, e.g. from "1A" to "1B" or from "13ZZF" to "13ZZG"
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Amendment position | Numbering logic |
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amendment is the first in the list | If nextNum is 1 then newNum = "A1" |
amendment is in the middle of the list | if nextNum = increment of prevNum then newNum = prevNum + "A" (e.g. between 3BF and 3BG is 3BFA) |
amendment is at the end of the list | newNum = increment of prevNum |