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:
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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.
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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
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
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