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1. Select which amendments you wish to attempt to auto-apply from the Amendment Manager tab. The current status of the amendments (Draft, Submitted, Tabled, Agreed) has no impact on auto-apply; amendments at any stage in their lifecycle can be auto-applied to a bill version.

2. Open the Amendment Actions menu, click ‘Apply amendments’, then select one of the following options:

   • Create a new bill version, to create a new copy of the published bill containing the applied amendments

   • Apply to an existing bill version, to apply to a working version which already exists in the bill project (for example, a version of the bill which already contains some applied amendments)

   • Apply to a bill version which is currently open in the Editor, to apply the amendments to a version of the bill which you’ve already opened up for editing in another tab.
     You can use the latter two options to apply additional amendments to an already created amended copy. This gives you more control over the order in which to apply amendments, and allows you to apply amendments in batches.

3. Lawmaker will attempt to apply the selected amendments to the bill version. Once this processing step is complete, a green toastie notification will appear in the top-right of the screen telling you how many amendments were successfully applied.

4. When you view the amended bill version in the Editor, successfully applied amendments will appear as red and blue tracked changes in the body of the bill. They will have corresponding numbered cards on the right-hand side of the window, in the ‘Inline Amendments’ panel. Amendments which could not be applied will appear in the ‘Review’ pane, with an error message. The Inline Amendments pane allows you to click a card and jump to the applied amendment. You can also accept or reject each applied amendment.

5. You can make further manual edits to the text of this version, before or after accepting the applied amendments, if you need to.

Known limitations and bugs

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Here is an example of an amendment tabled in the House of Commons which moves a clause to a different part of the Bill:

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Amendments to Tables

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Amendments to the Title

Amendments to the Long Title of a bill are not currently supported and cannot be auto-applied.

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