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How to insert a provision using the Content Completion Assistant (CCA)

To insert a provision:

  1. Press Enter to activate the CCA.

  2. Select the provision you wish to insert. You can use the up and down arrow keys or your mouse or you can start typing the name of the provision you want.

  3. Press Enter again.

The selected provision/element will be inserted in the next correct place, e.g. if your cursor is within a paragraph of a Regulation and you select “Regulation” from the CCA then a new Regulation will be inserted after the current Regulation.

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The provision that will be inserted in the provision that would appear at the top of the CCA had you pressed Enter. This will generally be the same provision as the one your cursor is in with the exception of when your cursor is a heading, opening words or closing words.

When your cursor is in

This provision will be inserted

Heading of grouping element (e.g. Part, Chapter, cross-heading)

Section if in a Bill; regulation/article etc. if in an SI/SSI

heading

Heading of a section in a Bill

Subsection

Schedule heading

Cross-heading

all

Any other

provisions

provision (e.g. subsection, paragraph etc.)

the

The same provision

How to insert an additional text paragraph within a provision

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If you need to insert an element in the preface (e.g. to insert a ‘note’ at the top of a Bill e.g. for Money bill rubrics), the simplest way is as follows:

  1. Open the Preferences by selecting Document>Preferences… in the upper toolbar menu.

  2. Turn on block tags mode by selecting Block tags in the Tags display mode dropdown menu.  This will present XML tags in the Editor.

  3. Place your cursor within the Preface tags but not within any child elements inside the preface.

  4. Press Enter and select the element you want to insert (e.g. Note).

  5. Return the display mode to normal by selecting No Tags in the Preferences… dialogue box.

Automatic conversions and insertions

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  • When you insert a subsection into a section in a Bill (that isn’t currently divided), the existing content of the section will be converted into the first subsection of the section.

  • When you insert a paragraph into a Regulation or Article etc. into an SI/SSI (that isn’t currently divided), the existing content of the regulation etc. will be converted into the first paragraph.

  • When you insert a schedule subparagraph into a schedule paragraph (that isn’t currently divided), the existing content of the schedule paragraph will be converted into the first schedule subparagraph.

  • When you insert a second schedule into a UK Bill or an SI/SSI, a ‘SCHEDULES’ heading will be inserted before the first schedule.

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Hints and tips

  • If When you insert a section into a Bill, it will contain a subsection by default.   Equally, if you insert a regulation or article into an SI it will contain a paragraph by default. If you want an undivided provisionsection, you can use the promote function to remove the subsection /paragraph - see Promoting and demoting provisions

  • When you insert an article, regulation, or rule into an SI/SSI, it will be undivided by default. You can insert paragraphs and sub-paragraphs using the CCA.

  • To insert a provision before the first provision in the series, it is sometimes useful to ‘view block tags’ (from Document > Preferences… Document>Preferences… in the toolbar menu) and place the cursor before the starting tag of the first provision in the series.   From here you can use the CCA to insert the provision at the beginning of the series.

  • The combined numbering format used by SI/SSIs will happen automatically when you insert your a child provision into the parent, e.g. inserting a sub-paragraph (i) into the first paragraph (a) – will become: (a)  (i)  sub-paragraph text here.

  • It is possible to insert a bullet bulleted list into your documents (bills & SIs).   If you right-click on the bullet point and select "Update ‘Update List Style" Style’ you can change the bullet point to an em-dash list or no bullet point.

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