When drafting a textual amendment within a Bill or SI that only involves a word or a phrase (i.e. does not involve inserting or substituting a whole provision (e.g. just a word or phrase), rather than using plain quote marks, you can you should use the ‘Quoted Text’ Quoted Text element in Lawmaker to represent the text that is being left out, inserted or substituted, rather than simply surrounding the text with quote marks.
(If you are inserting whole provisions or other structured content then you should use a quoted structure instead - see Quoted structures.)
For instance, quoted text can should be used for the highlighted portions in the following examples:
for “£50,000” substitute “£60,000”
In subsection (1), after “police,” insert “tri-service serious crime unit,”
In section 2, insert at the end “or to a limited liability partnership”
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A quoted text element should also be used for a textual amendment that starts with a word, phrase or punctuation but then continues with structure, e.g. in the following case:
In section 3(2) of the 2008 Act, at the end of paragraph (b) insert “or,
“(ba) the Scottish Ministers.”
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Using the Quoted Text element |
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rather than just manually typing quote marks around the text improves data quality which helps ensure the documents can be published successfully on legislation.gov.uk and helps other Lawmaker functions like the Tag Reference feature operate correctly. |
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Note: at present Quoted Text elements should not be used in an amendment instruction when drafting parliamentary amendments (but can be used within provisions being inserted in amendment, i.e. within a quoted structure within an amendment, as they would be within a Bill). |
How to insert quoted text
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It is currently not possible to paste within text into a Quoted Text element - future releases of Lawmaker will remove this restriction. |
Changing quote marks
When you insert a quoted text, by default double inverted commas (“ and “) are automatically inserted as quote marks. These quote marks can be removed or altered if necessary, by right-clicking within the quoted text and selecting Update quoted text properties.
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