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Where a line in a bill begins with a number element - i.e. (1), (2), (a), (b), (i), (ii) - and an amendment leaves out or substitutes that whole line, the auto-applied amendment may sometimes create bad XML.
Amendments which leave out the text after a defined term sometimes fail to auto-apply
Auto-apply sometimes fails where an amendment instruction includes additional quotation marks inside the reference to the text which is to be left out or substituted. For example, look at the word service in the example amendment below:
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The word is followed by an extra closing quotation mark, because it is a reference to the following definition:
However, amendments in this form sometimes fail to auto-apply. Removing the extra closing quotation mark before applying the amendment will resolve the problem and allow auto-apply to function correctly.
Applying a 'leave out and insert' amendment to the last words in a quoted structure sometimes results in the new words being placed after the quoted structure
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