Lawmaker will allow any user to select one or more amendment to apply to a copy of the bill. You can either create a new bill version or apply amendments to an existing working version. The amendments do not have to be derived either traditional or inline documents.
How to apply amendments to a bill version
On the Amendment Manager tab, select one or more amendments you wish to apply using the check boxes down the left-hand side.
From the Amendment Actions drop-down menu in the top right of the screen, select Apply Amendments.
You can select to apply the amendments to choose between the following options:
Create a new
bill version
Apply to an existing
draft version
Enter or select the details of the Bill version.
- Click Create.
Apply to a version which is currently open in the Editor (Note that you will be prompted to save or discard any unsaved changes in the selected version)
Pick the version you want to apply the amendments to, or choose a folder and version label if creating a new version
Click Create
When the operation is complete, you will be taken to the project tab so you can access the Bill version that has been created or updated with the amendments.
If you have chosen to apply the amendments to a working version which is already open in the Editor, the browser tab which contains the Editor view of that version will refresh.
A message will pop up indicating how many amendments were successfully applied.
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Viewing the applied amendments in the Editor
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Clicking on a card on the Inline Amendments panel will jump to the location in the Bill where that amendment appears.
You can use the 'X' button click the tick and cross icons in the inline amendment's card to commit the changes to the bill text or remove the amendment from the Bill if you no longer want it appliedbill text.
Accepting all the amendments
If you want to apply accept the amendments (i.e. to remove the blue and red tracked changes) then you should click on use the tick icon on each amendment card to accept the amendments (while checking that the changes appear as expected). If you want to commit all changes at once, you can click the Accept All button at the top of the Inline Amendments right-hand panel.
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In some cases, you might need to add some printing/silent changes (non-substantive changes to the text) in and around the amendments. You can do this using tracked changes. Make sure you turn off tracked change mode before using the tick/cross or Accept All button buttons in the Inline Amendments panel, otherwise the results will look very strange. If you had unexpected mark-up may appear in the bill. If you used tracked changes for the printing point changes, using Accept All on the Inline Amendments panel will not change these so . This means you can share this 'clean' easily create a “clean” version of the document with Counsel if you like and they can in which only the printing changes appear as tracks, and share this with Counsel in order to verify the printing changes easily. |
Amendments that should be reviewed
The Review right-hand panel will show automatically generated comments on amendments that relating to:
amendments which could not be applied
amendments which were successfully applied but
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which require additional user verification, either because of their insert location or
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because there is a need to make printing/silent changes. This occurs in particular where there are two or more amendments being inserted in the same location e.g. two or more amendments inserting some paragraphs
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at the same point in a provision.
Amendments that weren’t applied
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the location information (clause/schedule, page or line) was invalid or incorrect,
the amendment overlapped with the location of another amendment, or
the amendment's instruction wasn't was in a form that was wasn’t recognised.
Get in touch with the service team if you think an amendment should ought to have been applied but wasn’t. Auto-application of amendments is still a beta feature and all feedback will help us refine it in futuresuccessfully but instead fails.