When drafting amendments on a List of Draft Amendments (LoDA), Lawmaker provides the insert menu will provide a list of amendment descriptions which will be pre-populated upon insertion with generic text to be altered according to the amendment you are planning to draft. Each jurisdiction has a selection of these pre-populated amendments - see below for the expected outcome upon selecting from this menu:
Commons
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option of inserting standard forms of amendments containing prepopulated instructions.
To insert a pre-populated amendment, press Enter and select the appropriate option from the CCA. The screenshot below is the insert menu from a Lords LoDA:
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The table below lists the available options and what is inserted. (See Inserting provisions and other elements for general help with the CCA.)
Commons pre-populated amendments
CCA option | Amendment inserted |
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Amendment - Leave out Clause / Schedule |
Leave out Clause / Schedule *** |
Amendment - New Clause |
To move the following Clause— |
Amendment - New Schedule |
To move the following Schedule— |
and include an empty schedule in a quoted structure
Amendment - Page-line |
Clause /Schedule ***, page ***, line ***, text |
Amendment - Amendment to amendment |
As an Amendment to ***:— |
Line ***, |
Lords
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pre-populated
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amendments
CCA option | Amendment inserted |
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Amendment - Leave out Clause / Schedule |
Leave out Clause / Schedule *** |
Amendment - Insert Clause |
Before/After Clause ***, insert the following new Clause— |
Amendment - Insert Schedule |
Before/After Schedule ***, |
insert the following new |
Schedule— |
Amendment - |
Page-line |
Clause / Schedule ***, Page ***, line ***, text |
Amendment - stand part motion |
Proposer gives notice of his/her intention to oppose the Question that Clause *** stand part of the Bill. / that Schedule *** be the ***th Schedule to the Bill. |
Amendment - Amendment to amendment |
As an amendment to the amendment in the name of Member to text, printed on sheet HL Bill ***. |
Instruction |