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📘 Introduction
📚 Exercises
🛠️ Getting Started
Before you can create inline amendments, you will need a published version of the bill (download the XML file here
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The following steps will allow you to create the data required for this exercise.
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Create a new project selecting Northern Ireland Bill and Executive Bill and providing the title [Your Initials] Inline Amending Bill
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Close the Editor after it loads using the Close Editor button.
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From the Project tab, select Document Actions > Upload document—
Specify a folder As Introduced
Specify a version description As Introduced
Select the downloaded Inline_amending_bill.xml file
Click on Upload button
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Find the newly uploaded document version and select Actions > Update Document Information—
Update the Title to [Your Initials] Inline Amending Bill
Click on Update button
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Find the imported document on the Project tab and select Actions > Generate PDF
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On the grey PDF snapshot version, select Actions > Publish version
The published version will appear on the right-hand side of the Project tab and a snapshot is created under the working version.
You now have a published version of a bill reading to start creating amendments inline.
✏️ Creating textual amendments (leave out, insert and substitute)
On the Amendment Workspace tab, click on the +New button
In the Create new list of draft amendments dialog box—
Type of amendment - select Inline
Bill version can be left as As Introduced
Select Consideration Stage for Stage
Add a unique list name e.g. Textual amendments
Click on the Create button
The inline document will open in the Editor in a new browser tab
Insert text amendments
Create a simple ‘insert' amendment by—
In Section 2, within Article 44A—(1) (in the inserted text), place your cursor after 'hotel' and click Enter to view the insert menu
Select Insert text—
an empty text element which is surrounded by blue square brackets ready to start typing into
a new card appears in the right-hand panel with the text Insert indicating it is an insert-type amendment
Within the text element, type ‘a country mansion,’
Save your changes—
a unique ID (Dnumber) is assigned which appears on the card in the Inline Amendments right-hand panel and next to the amendment inline.
Open the Inline Amendment Tools in the right-hand panel
Click on the View Traditional Amendments button—
A document showing a list of draft traditionally formatted amendments will open in the Editor in a new browser tab
The amendment you just created is displayed
Close the traditional list of draft amendments using the Close Editor button
Now recreate the following 3 insert text amendments in your inline document
Save your changes and click on the View Traditional Amendments button on the Inline Amendment Tools panel (if you still had the traditional amendments open in a separate tab, you will need to refresh the list to see the changes by clicking on the refresh button in your browser)
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| Table of Contents | ||
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📘 Introduction
📚 Exercises
🛠️ Getting Started
Before you can create inline amendments, you will need a published version of the bill (download the XML file here
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The following steps will allow you to create the data required for this exercise.
Create a new project and provide the title [Your Initials] Inline Amending Bill
From the Project tab, select Document Actions > Upload document, selecting the downloaded XML file
On the newly uploaded document version, select Actions > Update Document Information and update the Title to [Your Initials] Inline Amending Bill
Generate a PDF of your new document
Select Actions > Publish version on the PDF snapshot version
You now have a published version of a bill reading to start creating amendments inline.
✏️ Creating textual amendments (leave out, insert and substitute)
On the Amendment Workspace tab, click on the +New button
Create a new list called Textual amendments for your As Introduced bill version at Consideration Stage.
Create some ‘insert' text amendments
In Section 2, within Article 44A, create the following insert text amendments. The instructions below will walk you through creating the first inline amendment.
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Place your cursor in the location of the amendment and click Enter to view the insert menu
Select Insert text and type ‘a country mansion,’ into the empty text element
Save your changes
View traditional amendments
Open the Inline Amendment Tools in the right-hand panel
Click on the View Traditional Amendments button
In the document that opens in a new tab, you will see your inline amendments converted into traditional amendments
Expected outcome
Type of amendment | Traditional amendment |
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Example of an amendment with ordinality |  |
Example of inserting text at the start of a provision |  |
Example of inserting text immediately before punctuation (before the ending full-stop) |  |
Close the traditional list of draft amendments using the Close Editor button
Leave out text amendments
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Create a simple ‘leave out' amendment by—
In Clause 3, within Article 44C—(1) (in the inserted text), highlight the text 'in relation' and in the hovering tool bar, click on Leave Out
Save your changes
Open the Inline Amendment Tools in the right-hand panel
Click on the View Traditional Amendments button
A document showing a list of draft traditionally formatted amendments will open in the Editor in a new browser tab with your first amendment displayed
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Close the traditional list of draft amendments using the Close Editor button
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Now recreate the following 2 leave out text amendments in your inline document
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Create some Leave Out text amendments
In Section 3, within Article 44C, create the following leave out text amendments. The instructions below will walk you through creating the first inline amendment.
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Highlight the text 'in relation' and in the hovering tool bar, click on Leave Out
Save your changes
Click on View traditional amendments button to see the new leave out amendments
Expected output with brief explanation of the type of amendment created
Type of amendment | Traditional amendment |
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Example of an amendment with ordinality |  |
Example of leaving out text that spans over a line |  |
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Create some Substitute text amendments
In Section 4, create the following leave out text amendments. The instructions below will walk you through creating the first inline amendment.
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Highlight the text 'in relation' and in the hovering tool bar, click on Leave Out
Save your changes
Click on View traditional amendments button to see the new leave out amendments
Substitute text amendments
Create a simple ‘substitute' amendment by—
In Section 4(1)(b), highlight the text '“first”' and in the hovering tool bar, click on Substitute—
an empty text element appears
the text that was highlighted is coloured red and struck out
square brackets surround all these changes
a new card appears in the right-hand panel with the text Substitute indicating it is an substitute-type amendment
Within the text element, type ‘“second”’
Save your changes
Open the Inline Amendment Tools in the right-hand panel
Click on the View Traditional Amendments button—
A document showing a list of draft traditionally formatted amendments will open in the Editor in a new browser tab with your first amendment displayed
Close the traditional list of draft amendments using the Close Editor button
Now recreate the following 3 substitute text amendments in your inline document
Save your changes and click on the View Traditional Amendments button on the Inline Amendment Tools panel (if you still had the traditional amendments open in a separate tab, you will need to refresh the list to see the changes by clicking on the refresh button in your browser)
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On the Amendment Workspace tab, click on the +New button
In the Create new list of draft amendments dialog box—
Type of amendment - select Inline
Bill version can be left as As Introduced
Select Consideration Stage for Stage
Add a unique list name e.g. Structural amendments
Click on the Create button
The inline document will open in the Editor in a new browser tab
Set your renumbering mode to “Off” by selecting Tools > Turn on/off renumbering until the green success message says Auto Renumbering: OFF
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Create a simple ‘insert' amendment by—
In Section 5, place your cursor anywhere in subsection (1) and click Enter to view the insert menu
Select Subsection—
a subsection is inserted containing an empty text element which is surrounded by blue square brackets ready to start typing into
a new card appears in the right-hand panel with the text Insert indicating it is an insert-type amendment
Within the text element, type ‘Regulations may modify paragraph (2) so as to add or remove a reference to licensed premises of a specified kind.’
Save your changes—
a unique ID (Dnumber) is assigned which appears on the card in the Inline Amendments right-hand panel and next to the amendment inline.
Open the Inline Amendment Tools in the right-hand panel
Click on the View Traditional Amendments button—
A document showing a list of draft traditionally formatted amendments will open in the Editor in a new browser tab
The amendment you just created is displayed
Close the traditional list of draft amendments using the Close Editor button
Now recreate the following 4 insert structure amendments in your inline document
Inserting a new section before section 8
Inserting a new section after section 8
Inserting a new section after section 9 that is contained within a cross heading
Inserting a new subsection with child paragraphs in section 7
Save your changes and click on the View Traditional Amendments button on the Inline Amendment Tools panel (if you still had the traditional amendments open in a separate tab, you will need to refresh the list to see the changes by clicking on the refresh button in your browser)
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Create a simple ‘substitute' structural amendment by—
In Section 13, place your cursor in subsection (1) and select ‘Subsection’ from the breadcrumb to highlight the whole provision
There isn’t a hovering tool bar when you select whole provisions, so instead view Inline Amendment Tools in the right-hand panel and click on Substitute
the subsection you highlighted will be coloured red and appear struck out
a new subsection will be inserted after in blue text
a new card will appear in the Inline Amendments right-hand panel with the text ‘Substitute’
Type into the empty ‘text’ element ‘In Article 60 of the Licensing Order (sale, etc., of intoxicating liquor to young persons), after paragraph (4) insert “The”’
Save your changes
Open the Inline Amendment Tools in the right-hand panel
Click on the View Traditional Amendments button
A document showing a list of draft traditionally formatted amendments will open in the Editor in a new browser tab
your new substitute amendment is displayed
Close the traditional list of draft amendments using the Close Editor button
Now recreate the following 1 substitute structure amendment in your inline document
Save your changes and click on the View Traditional Amendments button on the Inline Amendment Tools panel (if you still had the traditional amendments open in a separate tab, you will need to refresh the list to see the changes by clicking on the refresh button in your browser)
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On the Amendment Workspace tab, click on the +New button
In the Create new list of draft amendments dialog box—
Type of amendment - select Inline
Bill version can be left as As Introduced
Select Consideration Stage for Stage
Add a unique list name e.g. Hybrid amendments
Click on the Create button
The inline document will open in the Editor in a new browser tab
Set your renumbering mode to “Off” if you haven’t already by selecting Tools > Turn on/off renumbering until the green success message says Auto Renumbering: OFF
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Create an advanced ‘insert' hybrid amendment to understand the mechanics behind it by—
In Section 23, place your cursor immediately after the text ‘paragraph (3)’ and click Enter to view the insert menu
Select Insert text—
an empty ‘text’ placeholder appears surrounded by blue square brackets ready to start typing into
a new card appears in the right-hand panel with the text Insert indicating it is an insert-type amendment
Within the text element, type ‘—’
Click Enter to view the insert menu
Select Paragraph (a)
Type ‘in sub-paragraph (a), omit “Good Friday or”, and’
Click Enter to view the insert menu and select Paragraph (a) again
Leave the empty ‘text’ placeholder empty as Lawmaker will insert the moved trailing text into this second paragraph when the amendment is applied
Save your changes—
a unique ID (Dnumber) is assigned which appears on the card in the Inline Amendments right-hand panel and next to the amendment inline.
Open the Inline Amendment Tools in the right-hand panel
Click on the View Traditional Amendments button—
A document showing a list of draft traditionally formatted amendments will open in the Editor in a new browser tab
The amendment you just created is displayed (remember: empty placeholders do not render on the PDF so you can leave the empty ‘text’ element where it is).
Close the traditional list of draft amendments using the Close Editor button
Now recreate the following 3 insert hybrid amendments in your inline document
Save your changes and click on the View Traditional Amendments button on the Inline Amendment Tools panel (if you still had the traditional amendments open in a separate tab, you will need to refresh the list to see the changes by clicking on the refresh button in your browser)
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Create a simple ‘substitute' structural amendment by—
In Section 26(5) highlight from ‘paragraph' until ‘in’ in section 26(5)(c)
In the hovering tool bar click on Substitute
all the text and paragraphs you highlighted will be coloured red and appear struck out
a new ‘text’ element will be inserted after the red text
a new card will appear in the Inline Amendments right-hand panel with the text ‘Substitute’
Type into the empty ‘text’ element ‘sub-paragraph (a) and’
Save your changes
Open the Inline Amendment Tools in the right-hand panel
Click on the View Traditional Amendments button
A document showing a list of draft traditionally formatted amendments will open in the Editor in a new browser tab
your new substitute amendment is displayed
Close the traditional list of draft amendments using the Close Editor button
Close the inline document using the Close Editor button
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On the Amendment Workspace tab, click on the +New button
In the Create new list of draft amendments dialog box—
Type of amendment - select Inline
Bill version can be left as As Introduced
Select Consideration Stage for Stage
Add a unique list name e.g. cross references in amendments
Click on the Create button
The inline document will open in the Editor in a new browser tab
Set your renumbering mode to “Off” if you haven’t already by selecting Tools > Turn on/off renumbering until the green success message says Auto Renumbering: OFF
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Amend Section 36(1)(b) by changing the cross reference ‘section 33’ to ‘section 34’—
Highlight the '3’ within section 33
The hovering tool bar will not appear as you are modifying a cross reference and instead it presents the cross reference hovering tool bar
Circumvent this by opening the Inline Amendment Tools and selecting Substitute
Lawmaker will not let you change part of a cross reference so it automatically highlights the whole cross reference to strike out so you will need to recreate the whole cross reference by typing Section 34 into the empty ‘text’ placeholder
Save your changes
Open the Inline Amendment Tools in the right-hand panel
Click on the View Traditional Amendments button
A document showing a list of draft traditionally formatted amendments will open in the Editor in a new browser tab
your new amendment is displayed
Close the traditional list of draft amendments using the Close Editor button
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Amend Section 36(1)(c) by attempting to change the cross reference to subsection (2) to (3)—
Highlight the '2’ within subsection (2)
The hovering tool bar will not appear as you are modifying a cross reference and instead it presents the cross reference hovering tool bar
Circumvent this by opening the Inline Amendment Tools and selecting Substitute
Lawmaker will not let you change part of a cross reference so it automatically highlights the whole cross reference to strike out. In this case, the cross reference covers the range (2) to (6) so you will need to type in the full cross reference section 34(3) to (6)
Save your changes
Open the Inline Amendment Tools in the right-hand panel
Click on the View Traditional Amendments button
A document showing a list of draft traditionally formatted amendments will open in the Editor in a new browser tab
your new amendment is displayed
Close the traditional list of draft amendments using the Close Editor button
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From the Amendment Manager, select the inline document called Structural amendments and open it in the Editor
In the Inline Amendment Tools right-hand panel, click on the View Traditional Amendments button
In the traditional list, find a new clause amendment and add NEW TEXT to the section heading in the quoted structure.
Save your changes, make a note of its DNumber and close the traditional list using the Close Editor button.
In the inline document, view the Inline Amendments right-hand panel and find the amendment that you just updated using the DNumber that you noted down in the step before and see a black warning triangle appears next to the amendment
Click on the amendment card to jump to the inline amendment in your inline document and note that the inline amendment doesn’t show NEW TEXT in the heading because traditional amendments do not backwards synchronise with their inline equivalents.
Attempt to add some text to the amendment and you will see a yellow warning message appear letting you know that it’s not possible to make changes due to the out-of-sync warning marker
In the Inline Amendment right-hand panel, click on the black warning triangle and a Remove out-of-sync warning marker dialog box appears—
This warning lets you know that the traditional version of this amendment has been updated,
If you make a change to the inline version of the amendment, it would overwrite your traditional version so the warning prevents you making any changes and unwittingly overwriting your traditional version
Click on the Remove button
Add DIFFERENT TEXT to the header of the same new clause amendment. This time you will be able to.
Save your changes
In the Inline Amendment Tools right-hand panel, click on the View Traditional Amendments button
In the traditional list, see that the text DIFFERENT TEXT now appears in the heading of the new clause amendment and it has overridden the changes you previously made.
Close the traditional list using the Close Editor button
Close the inline document using the Close Editor button
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