What are references in Lawmaker?
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Valid internal references will show as purple , e.g. “section 3(2)(a)”
External references will show as blue, e.g. “section 7 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2000”
References that are invalid or have been manually altered are shown with different formatting which is described below in relation to specific features (the formatting is also summarised in the table here: Formatting of references). The formatting in the editor is not replicated in the PDF version of the document but references will become hyperlinks in the PDF that can be used to jump to the target of the reference.
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Lawmaker will also identify external references that use an alias instead of the full title of the legislative document, e.g. references to “the 2007 Act” or “the 1998 Regulations”. It does this by searching for definitions of the alias elsewhere within the document, either of the form of a full definition like ““the “the 2007 Act” means the Criminal Justice Act 2007” or a parenthetical definition like “…the Criminal Justice Act 2007(“the 2007 Act”)”.
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Where however Lawmaker detects that the target of an existing reference has changed (e.g. because the context in which that reference sits has changed), the reference will be changed accordingly but it will be marked as requiring checking. Such references will appear dark red brown in the Editor (e.g. “regulation 52”) and each one will also be highlighted with a document check error. From the document check panel, you can confirm that the reference remains valid or you can remove the reference mark-up if you think it is no longer appropriate.
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You can’t currently create references to EU provisions using this method. |
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Turning on the full-depth mode to see all provisions in the Structure View - especially in big documents - might have an impact on the Editor performance, slowing it down. Using the right-click context menu in the Editor will be faster and perform better. |
Floating toolbar for references
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Format of reference | Description | Notes |
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Purple text | Valid internal reference | The target provision has been identified and the citation should update correctly when you update x-refs. |
Blue text | Valid external reference | |
Grey text with a light grey highlight | Invalid reference | An internal reference, the target of which cannot be found in the document (it may, however, exist in another document) or an external reference, the target document of which couldn’t be located on www.legislation.gov.uk. |
Dark red Brown text | Reference requiring checking | A reference that has been modified as part of the Tag references operation that needs to be checked by the user to ensure it remains correct. |
Double underlining | Manually edited reference | A reference the properties of which have been manually edited by the user and which will not be modified by any subsequent Tag references operation. |
Black text with orange highlight | Internal reference which can’t be resolved | Lawmaker can find the target provision but is unable to update the reference text automatically. This is usually because the target provision has changed in some way, e.g. it has be promoted or demoted. To fix this, it is generally best to remove the existing reference and either re-tag the reference if it remains correct or insert a new reference. |
Grey text with dotted grey underline | Ignored reference | The reference text of this cross-reference will not be updated as part of an Update references operation. |
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