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The first Consolidated List of Amendments will bring together all agreed amendments from the second House from all amending their stages. 

Subsequent versions are updated to include of the Consolidated List will then be updated by removing agreed amendments and including messages going back to the other House with any agreed amendments being removed from the documentfor amendments still in play.

How to generate the first Consolidated List of Amendments

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  1. Select Amendment Manager > Create Official List

  2. In the dialog box that appears, select ‘Consolidated List of Amendments’

  3. Fill in the options on the dialog box and click on Create button

  4. In newly created list in the Editor:

    1. Update the amendments in the list so that they point to the version of the Bill when it first entered the 2nd House

    2. Merge, delete and move amendments around as required

      1. You may notice that some amendments are at the top of the list when they should be further down. This is because LM is associating ping pong amendments with the As Brought from the Commons version of the Bill, and the amendments are to provisions that are beyond what was contained in that Bill print. You don't need to worry - these amendments can be dragged and dropped into place.

    3. If you made changes to clause & schedule numbers as part of updating the amendments also check that the associated interstitial heading needs updating as well,

    4. After you’ve finished updating the amendments, manually insert any missing interstitial headings where required (select Interstitial heading from the Insert Menu, making sure your cursor is in the ping pong motion before the location where the interstitial heading should be inserted)

    5. Renumber the amendments so that they are now numbered 1 to n (Tools > Renumber amendments)

    6. Save and close the list

  5. If you need to add further amendments after you have begun work on the consolidated list (for example, there are 3rd reading amendments or unexpected divisions), copy those amendments to Ping Pong stage in the same way as outlined in "How to copy the agreed (or likely to be agreed) amendments to ‘Ping Pong’ stage" above. Open the newly duplicated amendments in a temporary list and copy and paste them into the correct place in your consolidated list. You can do this by right-clicking on the amendment in the structure view or by right-clicking on the 'Amendment' element in the breadcrumb for that amendment. Tip: Make sure to use ctrl+V when pasting into the correct place. 

  6. Share the document version with the other House and let them know that it’s ready for them to prepare for publishing

Info

If you want to insert an interstitial heading before the first amendment in the Consolidated List, you will need to place you cursor in the 'list body' element.  To do this:

  1. Put your cursor at the start of the amendment heading e.g. “COMMONS AMENDMENT 3”

  2. Click on the left arrow on your keyboard and watch the breadcrumb change until you end up in 'list body'

  3. Click enter now and select 'Interstitial heading' from the insert menu and type in the Clause  reference number

The interstitial heading will be inserted before the amendment heading, at the top of the list. The reason for this manoeuvring of cursor location when inserting the first element in a list is because Lawmaker always inserts your selected element after the element that your cursor is in. The only way to insert something as the first item in a list, is to shift the cursor so that it’s in an element before the element at the start of the list.

Note

Edit rights to the amendments belong to the House that published the latest version of the bill i.e. users in the second House. 

When you share your Consolidated List with the other House, make sure the amendments, interstitial headings and sort order is correct.

If you pick up a shared Consolidated List and notice there is a mistake with the amendments, you will not have edit rights to the amendments UNTIL YOU PUBLISH THE CONSOLIDATED LIST.  To correct the data you can either:

  • Contact someone in the other House who can make that change to the amendment for you

    • If the mistake is inside the amendment (e.g. page number wrong or message is wrong) they can update the amendment in a temporary list and save – when you refresh your Consolidated List – you will see their changes; or

    • If the mistake is in the list (e.g. a missing interstitial heading or the sort order is incorrect) they will need to update the Consolidated List itself and reshare the new version with you.

  • If you cannot get hold of someone in the other House in time, publish the list (to assign edit rights to you), make the change and then republish the list once it’s complete. As long as you do this before the scheduled update on LegHub is run, no one will see the first published mistake in the amendment on the websiteAt the time of writing this: only ping pong motions will appear on the website so publishing the Consolidated List with a mistake on it will not make the mistakes public.

How to create subsequent Consolidated List of Amendments

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