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titleDetailed instructions to create the first inline amendment

  1. Place your cursor in the location of the amendment (after “hotel,” in section 44A(1)) and click Enter to view the insert menu

  2. Select Insert text and type a country mansion, into the empty text element

  3. Carry on creating the remaining insert amendments

  4. Click the Save icon or press ctrl+s to save your changes.

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Type of amendment

Traditional amendment

Hybrid leave out removing some text and child paragraphs

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Hybrid leave out which will merge 2 separate subsections into a single subsection

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  1. HERE!!!

Substitute hybrid amendments

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Step 3: Create some substitute hybrid amendments

In section 26, create the following inline amendments

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Save your changes

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Open the Inline Amendment Tools in the right-hand panel

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Click on the View Traditional Amendments button

  1. A document showing a list of draft traditionally formatted amendments will open in the Editor in a new browser tab

  2. your new substitute amendment is displayed

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Close the traditional list of draft amendments using the Close Editor button

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Close the inline document using the Close Editor button

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titleDetailed instructions to create the second inline amendment

  1. In Section 26(5) highlight from ‘paragraph' until ‘in’ in section 26(5)(c)

  2. In the hovering tool bar click on Substitute

  1. all the text and paragraphs you highlighted will be coloured red and appear struck out

  2. a new ‘text’ element will be inserted after the red text

  3. a new card will appear in the Inline Amendments right-hand panel with the text ‘Substitute’

  4. Type into the empty ‘text’ element ‘sub-paragraph (a) and’

  1. Type sub-paragraph (a) and into the empty ‘text’ element

Save your changes and then view the traditional amendments to check they match what you were expecting (click View Traditional Amendments in the Inline Amendments Tool panel).

Expected output of step 4

Type of amendment

Traditional amendment

Substitute hybrid that will remove a paragraph

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Substitute hybrid that will result in the removal of 3 paragraphs

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✏️ Exercise 4: Creating amendments involving cross references

HERE!!!

  1. On the Amendment Workspace tab, click on the +New button image-20250218-153255.png

  2. In the Create new list of draft amendments dialog box—

    1. Type of amendment - select Inline

    2. Bill version can be left as As Introduced

    3. Select Consideration Stage for Stage

    4. Add a unique list name e.g. cross references in amendments

    5. Click on the Create button

    6. The inline document will open in the Editor in a new browser tab

    7. Set your renumbering mode to “Off” if you haven’t already by selecting Tools > Turn on/off renumbering until the green success message says Auto Renumbering: OFF

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  1. Amend Section 36(1)(b) by changing the cross reference ‘section 33’ to ‘section 34’—

    1. Highlight the '3’ within section 33

    2. The hovering tool bar will not appear as you are modifying a cross reference and instead it presents the cross reference hovering tool bar

    3. Circumvent this by opening the Inline Amendment Tools and selecting Substitute

    4. Lawmaker will not let you change part of a cross reference so it automatically highlights the whole cross reference to strike out so you will need to recreate the whole cross reference by typing Section 34 into the empty ‘text’ placeholder

  2. Save your changes

  3. Open the Inline Amendment Tools in the right-hand panel

  4. Click on the View Traditional Amendments button

    1. A document showing a list of draft traditionally formatted amendments will open in the Editor in a new browser tab

    2. your new amendment is displayed

  5. Close the traditional list of draft amendments using the Close Editor button

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  1. Amend Section 36(1)(c) by attempting to change the cross reference to subsection (2) to (3)—

    1. Highlight the '2’ within subsection (2)

    2. The hovering tool bar will not appear as you are modifying a cross reference and instead it presents the cross reference hovering tool bar

    3. Circumvent this by opening the Inline Amendment Tools and selecting Substitute

    4. Lawmaker will not let you change part of a cross reference so it automatically highlights the whole cross reference to strike out. In this case, the cross reference covers the range (2) to (6) so you will need to type in the full cross reference section 34(3) to (6)

  2. Save your changes

  3. Open the Inline Amendment Tools in the right-hand panel

  4. Click on the View Traditional Amendments button

    1. A document showing a list of draft traditionally formatted amendments will open in the Editor in a new browser tab

    2. your new amendment is displayed

  5. Close the traditional list of draft amendments using the Close Editor button

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  1. From the Amendment Manager, select the inline document called Structural amendments and open it in the Editor

  2. In the Inline Amendment Tools right-hand panel, click on the View Traditional Amendments button

  3. In the traditional list, find a new clause amendment and add NEW TEXT to the section heading in the quoted structure.

  4. Save your changes, make a note of its DNumber and close the traditional list using the Close Editor button.

  5. In the inline document, view the Inline Amendments right-hand panel and find the amendment that you just updated using the DNumber that you noted down in the step before and see a black warning triangle appears next to the amendment

  6. Click on the amendment card to jump to the inline amendment in your inline document and note that the inline amendment doesn’t show NEW TEXT in the heading because traditional amendments do not backwards synchronise with their inline equivalents.

  7. Attempt to add some text to the amendment and you will see a yellow warning message appear letting you know that it’s not possible to make changes due to the out-of-sync warning marker

  8. In the Inline Amendment right-hand panel, click on the black warning triangle and a Remove out-of-sync warning marker dialog box appears—

    1. This warning lets you know that the traditional version of this amendment has been updated,

    2. If you make a change to the inline version of the amendment, it would overwrite your traditional version so the warning prevents you making any changes and unwittingly overwriting your traditional version

    3. Click on the Remove button

  9. Add DIFFERENT TEXT to the header of the same new clause amendment. This time you will be able to.

  10. Save your changes

  11. In the Inline Amendment Tools right-hand panel, click on the View Traditional Amendments button

  12. In the traditional list, see that the text DIFFERENT TEXT now appears in the heading of the new clause amendment and it has overridden the changes you previously made.

  13. Close the traditional list using the Close Editor button

  14. Close the inline document using the Close Editor button

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