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Introduction

A quoted structure is the element you insert in Lawmaker to contain inserted or substituted provisions when you are creating a textual amendment in a Bill or SI, or creating a parliamentary amendment.

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If the starting element has a number, then the number will be left empty (but parentheses will still be present if the element number would normally have them) and it will be locked (see OLD - Locking and unlocking numbers). You can manually add a number to the first element and subsequent elements will be numbered accordingly.

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More notes on quoted structures

  • You can copy or cut a quoted structure by placing your cursor in the quoted structure, selecting “quoted structure” from the breadcrumb and then pressing CTRL+c or CTRL+c as appropriate. To paste it, place your cursor in the provision/amendment you want your quoted structure to appear after and use the keyboard short cut CTRL+v.

  • You can’t use the Tag x-refs features when the cursor is in a quoted structure because there won’t be enough context to resolve any references found. But you can create manual x-refs to and from provisions in a quoted structure - see OLD - Managing To create cross references. (You can’t currently create manual cross-references to provisions within a quoted structure that is marked as relating a EU document type.

  • The training video on Managing footnotes, textual amendments and references in SI/SSIs includes how to insert quoted structures.

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