These are the detailed rules that govern how the promotion function works in Bills, Acts and SI/SSIs. See Promoting and demoting provisions for general help.
Bills and Acts
Provision | Conditions | Rule |
Paragraph Sub-paragraph Sub-sub-paragraph Definition or Step | where there is only one of its kind; and the parent isn’t a section or a schedule paragraph or step | Provision will be ‘promoted’ into a sibling of its parent provision, copying over any text If the provision had child elements, they will remain child elements with the following additional change:
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Paragraph Sub-paragraph Sub-sub-paragraph Definition or Step | where the provision is not the last child of its kind | Provision will be ‘promoted’ into a sibling of the parent provision, copying over any text. Any sibling provisions to the ‘promoted’ provision will now become child provisions to the newly ‘promoted’ provision |
Paragraph Sub-paragraph Sub-sub-paragraph Definition or Step | where it is the last child of its parent; and there is more than one of its kind | Provision will be ‘promoted’ into the closing words of the parent provision, copying over any text. If the provision had child elements, it will be promoted into a sibling of its parent provision, copying over any text and keeping the child elements with the following additional change:
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Closing words | The provision’s parent isn’t section or schedule paragraph | Closing words will be ‘promoted’ into a sibling of the parent provision, copying over any text |
Schedule subparagraph | where there is only one of its kind | Schedule subparagraph will become the schedule paragraph’s content, copying over any text If the schedule sub-paragraph had child elements, they will remain child elements with no change in element type. |
Subsection | where there is only one of its kind | The subsection will become the section’s content, copying over any text If the subsection had child elements, they will remain child elements with no change in element type. |
Subsection | where the provision is not the first or last child of its kind | A section will be created with a subsection. The subsection will contain the promoted subsection’s content and the heading of the section will be left blank If the subsection had child elements, they will remain child elements with no change in element type. |
Schedule sub-paragraph | where the provision is not the first or last child of its kind | Schedule subparagraph will be ‘promoted’ into a sibling of the parent schedule paragraph, copying over any text Any sibling schedule sub-paragraphs to the ‘promoted’ provision will now become child schedule sub-paragraphs to the newly ‘promoted’ provision |
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