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Process and logic for auto-generating the Marshalled List

Filtering which amendments to include in the list

Amendments will appear in the Notice of Amendments if—

• they were recorded as having been “tabled” up to the specified cut-off date (and time if supplied),

• they do not have the status “notSelected” (amendments that were not selected will not appear in the Marshalled List), and

• they do not have the status “withdrawn” or “withdrawnBeforeMoved” (withdrawn amendments will not appear in the Marshalled List)

Sorting the amendments

• Amendments are sorted by the order they appear in the bill: Clauses 1-n, Schedules 1-n and Long Title amendments appearing last.

• As automatic sorting in Lawmaker is limited to page and line information gleaned from the amendment, you might sometimes need to add sort codes when there are 2 or more amendments with the same location information.

Automatically assigned numbers

• Amendments are automatically numbered on a Marshalled List, starting “Amendment 1” and so on.

• Stand part clause/schedule motions at Consideration stage are not numbered.

• Amendments to amendments are numbered.

If an amendment is sorted incorrectly, you can use the structure view to drag & drop it to the correct location and manually overwrite the assigned amendment numbers to correct them. However, unless you fix the sorting information (location information on the ‘Amendment Information’ right-hand panel) then the incorrect sorting will additionally occur in the Speaker’s Brief.

In the Editor—

1. Place cursor in the amendment you need to update

2. View ‘Amendment Information’ in the right-hand panel

3. Update the Sort Code to define which sort order the amendments should appear in e.g. “1” for the first and “2” for the next.

Once you have updated the amendments' location information, you can either refresh the list (Tools > Update List) or use the structure view to drag the amendment(s) to their correct location, manually fixing the amendment numbers as required.

Amendments to amendments

As long as you updated the location information for any amendments to amendments (a2a) when they appeared in the Notices, the sort order should be correct in the Marshalled List. If some fine-tuning is still required, update the sort code for each affected a2a in the ‘Amendment Information’ right-hand panel. You may also need to manually fix the amendment numbering as well. If you get the sort order correct (using location information to fine-tune the automatic sorting) then the Speaker’s Brief will also sort the amendments correctly.

When a2as appear in the Marshalled List, their italic heading (Amend Context) needs updating with their target amendment’s assigned number. To do this, delete the original text and type in “Amendment to Amendment x”. When you save these changes, the location information visible in the ‘Amendment Information’ right-hand panel will automatically update the provision to “amnd_x” where x is the target amendment’s number.

Starred amendments

• If you had an amendment tabled after the deadline, you can assign an asterisk to it to highlight that it was tabled after the deadline. To do this

  1. Place your cursor in the amendment in the Editor view

  2. Right-click and select “Update star status”

  3. Select asterisk and Update

• An asterisk will appear next to the selected amendment. You can remove it by following the same steps.

• If you generate another list, the star status will be lost and you will need to reassign a star.