Introduction
In the short term, agreed to amendments will need to pasted in manually from amendments. There are some tweaks we have made to the system to make this process as simple as possible.
How to copy and paste the content of quoted structures
Place your cursor in the quoted structure
Right click (in the Structure view or Editor) and select “Copy Content of Quoted Structure”
Place your cursor in the correct location in the bill where the inserted text should appear and paste (ctrl + v)
The system will paste the content of the quoted structure after your cursor location at the valid insert point.
Hints and tips
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To create an as-amended version of a Bill you can do either of the following (or a combination of both):
use the auto-apply feature to automatically apply amendments to a new Bill version, or
manually apply amendments to a new Bill version,
Auto-applying amendments
Users can generate a copy of a Bill with any amendments they choose applied to it (regardless of the status of the amendment or whether the amendment is an inline amendment or traditionally drafted amendment). All successfully applied amendments will appear marked up in the bill version with a corresponding 'inline amendment card' in the "Inline Amendments" right-hand panel in the Editor. In the document itself, the applied amendments will show up as tracked changes. In the event that an amendment cannot be applied e.g. the page/line information is incorrect or it overlaps with another applied amendment, it will be listed separately on the "Review" right-hand panel in the Editor with a brief description explaining why. Handling amendments in this way means that you will know exactly which amendments out of a batch were applied and which were not.
See Auto-application of amendments to a bill version for more detail.
Accepting auto-applied amendments
Once amendments have been applied to a bill using the 'Apply Amendments' feature, a clean version of the Bill can be created using the 'Accept All' button on the "Inline Amendments" right-hand panel in the Editor.
An 'as amended' version of the bill can be constructed from both automatically and manually applied amendments and you can make 'silent' printing changes as required around these applied amendments as you currently do.
Manually applying amendments
You can also continue to apply amendments manually, for example any amendment that couldn't be applied using the auto-application feature, and these can be accepted using the usual 'accept'/'reject' buttons on the 'Review' right-hand panel, if applied in tracked change mode.
See Manually applying amendments for more help.
Cross-references in applied amendments
If an amendment contains a cross reference to a provision in another amendment, or to a provision in the bill being amended, then the system should be able to resolve this cross reference
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when you paste in the amendment content.
If a cross reference didn't update as expected, check that the target provision exists in the document where the
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amendment content was pasted and
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try running Update x-refs
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again
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Scottish Amendments
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