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Introduction

A Bill can be updated manually to reflect agreed-to amendments.  You can do this by editing the Bill version (e.g. by deleting a provision) and by using copy and paste to transfer content from the amendments to the Bill (e.g. to reflect the insertion of some new subsections).

How to copy the whole content of a quoted structure

To apply an insertion of or substitution amendment, you will need to copy all of the content to be inserted from the amendment. This content will be in the quoted structure within the amendment. Lawmaker has a special feature to make it easier to copy.

To copy the quoted structure content from an amendment into a Bill:

1. Place your cursor in the Open the list containing the amendment in the Editor (this can either be an existing list or a temporary list).

2. Right click somewhere within the quoted structure in the amendment .Right click and select Copy Content of Quoted Structure from the context menu.

3. Open the Bill in the Editor (you don’t have to close the amendment list before doing this).

4. Place your cursor in the Bill before where the inserted text should appear.

5. Paste the copied content by pressing Ctrl+v.

The system will paste the content of the quoted structure after your cursor location at the first valid insertion point.

Numbering of provisions when applying amendments

When amendments are applied to a Bill by pasting in their content, any provision in the amendments with an empty number will be assigned an appropriate number (e.g. 2A) as part of the paste operation as long as your bill is not in auto-renumbering mode.

To toggle the renumbering mode, use Tools>Turn on/off Auto-Renumbering in the upper tool bar.)