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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.

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(They’re called “quoted structures” because 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

  1. 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

  2. Select a starting element and adjust any other settings in the dialogue box.

  3. 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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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.

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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.

  • 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.

  • The training video on Managing footnotes, textual amendments and references in SI/SSIs includes how to insert quoted structures.

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