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This Quick Reference Guide provides guidance on how to manage amendments to amendments (A2As) in Lawmaker to ensure they are correctly sorted, numbered and applied with ease.

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titleDetailed steps on updating location information for amendments to amendments

  1. Still in the Editor, place your cursor in the A2A you wish to record location information for

  2. Open the Amendment Information right-hand panel

  3. In the Location table update the Location, Provision, Page and Line fields using details from the target amendment (see https://lawmaker.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USERMANUAL/pages/933232641/Amendments+to+amendments#Examples-of-what-to-type-into-the-Location-table )

  4. Also update the Sort Code according to how any other amendments there are sharing the same target amendment e.g. if there is only one A2A, its sort code will be 2 and the target amendment would be 1 (see https://lawmaker.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USERMANUAL/pages/933232641/Amendments+to+amendments#Examples-of-what-to-type-into-the-Location-table )

  5. WAIT A FEW SECONDS until the spinner has run before you save your changes

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titleDetailed steps on updating location information on the target amendment

  1. Find the target amendment on the Amendment Manager

  2. Select it and open it in a temporary list (Amendment Actions > Create temporary list)

  3. In the Editor, place your cursor in the target amendment

  4. Open the Amendment Information right-hand panel

  5. Update the Sort Code with 1

  6. WAIT A FEW SECONDS until the spinner has run before you save your changes and close the list using the Close Editor button

Example Location table entries

NB: The Type field is usually populated using the information in the A2A’s instruction e.g. Leave out x and insert y would be Type = Substitute. For simplicity I these have been left it blank in the table below.

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