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where an earlier provision sets the context, e.g. where a section begins “(1) The Human Rights Act 1998 is amended as follows.”,
where the opening words set the context, e.g. “In The Human Rights Act 1998-”,
where the reference refers back to a previously mentioned enactment, e.g. “section 7 of that Act”
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This functionality relies on sophisticated pattern recognition |
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and the data in www.legislation.gov.uk. Despite that, there may be some references that it doesn’t recognise. |
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There is also a small possibility that Lawmaker will tag something as a reference when it isn’t. We’re constantly refining this feature so please provide feedback to Lawmaker Support if you come across any issues. |
How to create a reference using the Structure View or the right-click context menu
Internal references can be created using the Structure View or via the context menu that is available when you right-click on text within your document. (This Using this method you first copy a reference to a particular provision and then you use the normal paste function to paste the reference where you want it in your document.
This method is the only way to create cross-internal references within a quoted structure.)
To create insert a cross- reference using the Structure Viewto a provision using this method:
Either:
Right-click on the provision in the Structure view you want to refer to (you may want to turn on full-depth mode to see all provisions - see Using the structure view)
, and click Select x-ref to copy, or
Right-click within the provision in the main Editor window and select
From the context menu that appears, select the reference you want to copy from the Select x-ref to copy sub-menu. The menu will show all the different options for referring to the provision so you can select whether or not you want the provision name (e.g. “section”) to be included and whether any ancestor provisions should be included in the reference.
This will place the selected cross-reference in the clipboard.
To insert the reference, place your cursor in the Editor where you would like the cross reference to be inserted and press Ctrl+v to paste in the reference.
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