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Introduction

A quoted structure is the element you insert in Lawmaker to contain inserted or substituted provisions when you are creating a textual amendment in a Bill or SI, or creating a parliamentary amendment.

A quoted structure can contain any kind of provision and will normally appeared indented on the page and surrounded by quote marks. In the Editor a quoted structure will be shown with a dotted line around it to distinguish from other provisions.

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(They’re called “quoted structures” because <quotedStructure> is the name of the element used in Akoma Ntoso to hold structured content that is being quoted in some way from another document. They are similar to what, in the existing SI template, were called “long quotes”.)

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If you are creating a textual amendment in a Bill or SI that only inserts or substitutes a single word or a phrase then you should use a quoted text element instead - see Quoted Text.

How to insert a quoted structure

Use any of the following methods:
- right-click in the Editor and select Insert quoted structure
- from the Insert menu in the toolbar, select Insert quoted structure
- use keyboard shortcut CTRL+q
Select a starting element and adjust any other settings in the dialogue box.
Click Insert.

Lawmaker will insert a quoted structure containing the selected starting element on a new line below the provision your cursor is in,.

If the starting element has a number, then the number will be left empty (but parentheses will still be present if the element number would normally have them) and it will be locked (see OLD - Locking and unlocking numbers). You can manually add a number to the first element and subsequent elements will be numbered accordingly.

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Act of the Scottish Parliament (asp)
United Kingdom Public General Act (ukpga)
UK Statutory Instrument
Scottish Statutory Instrument
EU Regulation, EU Directive or EU Decision

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If you select a different document type, the PDF will render the elements in the appropriate styles for the target document, except in relation to font style an size which will match the main document.

That means if you include an asp quoted structure in a UK Bill, or a ukpga quoted structure in a Scottish Bill, there may be some presentational differences in the content of the quoted structure when you generate a PDF. If you want the contents of the quoted structure to look exactly like other provisions in the Bill then set the document type to the Act type that corresponds to the Bill.

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Inserting a quoted structure immediately after another quoted structure

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To insert a quoted structure immediately after another quoted structure either:

right-click in the Editor within the existing quoted structure and select Insert adjacent quoted structure, or
From the Insert menu on the toolbar, select Insert adjacent quoted structure.

See https://lawmaker.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USERMANUAL/pages/25526905/Default+indent+for+starting+provisions+in+a+quoted+structure for more on when and how to use this feature.

In the ‘insert quoted structure’ modal:

Select the starting element for the new adjacent quoted structure
Specify the necessary indent level to apply to the adjacent quoted structure
Select whether you require a starting and ending quotation mark
Update the following text if required
And click Insert

The system will insert the adjacent quoted structure immediately after the one where your cursor was containing the selected starting element

Nested quoted structures

It is possible to insert a quoted structure within an existing quoted structure. Just place your cursor within the existing quoted structure and follow the instructions above to insert a new quoted structure. Info More notes on

Tables in quoted structures

You can insert a table as a starting element by selecting “table” as the starting element. This will take you to the “Insert table” dialogue box allowing you to specify the type of table/table row that you want to insert. If you just want to insert a single row of a table then insert a table with only 1 row and no table number, caption or header - see Inserting and managing tables.

Moving existing provisions in and out of quoted structures

See Moving elements in or out of Quoted Structures for help with this.

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More notes on quoted structures

You can copy or cut a quoted structure by placing your cursor in the quoted structure, selecting “quoted structure” from the breadcrumb and then pressing CTRL+c or CTRL+c as appropriate. To paste it, place your cursor in the provision/amendment you want your quoted structure to appear after and use the keyboard short cut CTRL+v.If you can’t find an element in the insert menu once you’ve inserted a quoted structure you will need to insert an adjacent quoted structure and select the provision from the ‘starting provision’ option in the ‘insert quoted structure’ modal. Adjacent quoted structures will blend into the current quoted structure in terms of display in the PDF, you just need to ensure the start and end quote appear at the start of your quoted structure (if required) and that your end quote appears after your last adjacent quoted structure.
You can’t use the Tag x-refs features when the cursor is in a quoted structure because there won’t be enough context to resolve any references found. But you can create manual x-refs to and from provisions in a quoted structure - see OLD - Managing To create cross references. (You can’t currently create manual cross-references to provisions within a quoted structure that is marked as relating a EU document type.
You can watch a video demonstrating how to Insert quoted structures in SI/SSIsThe training video on Managing footnotes, textual amendments and references in SI/SSIs includes how to insert quoted structures.

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