Introduction
Lawmaker will allow any user to select one or more amendment to apply to a copy of the bill. You can either create a new bill version or apply amendments to an existing working version. The amendments do not have to be derived from inline documents to be applicable.
How to apply amendments to a bill version
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On the
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Amendment Manager
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tab, select one or more amendments you wish to apply using the check boxes down the left-hand side
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From the Amendment Actions
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drop-down menu in the top right of the screen
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, select Apply Amendments.
You can choose between the following options:
Create a new
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bill version
Apply to an existing draft version
Apply to a version which is currently open in the Editor (Note that you will be asked to save or discard any unsaved changes in the selected version)
Pick the version you want to apply the amendments to, or choose a folder and version label if creating a new version
Click Create
When the operation is complete, you will be taken to the project tab
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Hints and tips
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- All successfully applied amendments will be listed on the "Inline Amendments" right-hand panel
- Any amendments that couldn't be applied will be listed on the 'Review' right-hand panel. The reasons could be:
- If an amendment's instruction wasn't recognised (get in touch with the project team as this may be something that can be refined in future),
- If the location information (clause/schedule, page or line) was invalid or incorrect, or
- If another amendment overlapped with the location of another amendment
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so you can access the Bill version that has been created or updated with the amendments.
If you have chosen to apply the amendments to a working version which is already open in the Editor, the browser tab which contains the Editor view of that version will refresh.
A message will pop up indicating how many amendments were successfully applied.
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Viewing the applied amendments in the Editor
Amendments successfully applied
When you open the Bill in the Editor, all successfully applied amendments will be listed on the Inline Amendments right-hand panel.
Clicking on a card on the
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Inline
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Amendments panel will jump to the location in the
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Bill where that amendment appears.
You can
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click the tick and cross icons in the inline amendment's card to
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commit the changes to the bill text or remove the amendment from the bill text.
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Accepting all the amendments
If you want to
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accept the amendments (i.e. remove the blue and red tracked changes) then you should
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use the tick icon on each amendment card to accept each change (while checking that each of the textual changes appear as expected). If you want to commit all changes at once, you can click the Accept All button at the top of the Inline Amendments right-hand panel.
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In some cases, you might need to add some printing/silent changes (non-substantive changes to the text) in and around the amendments. You can do this using tracked changes. Make sure you |
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turn off tracked change mode |
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before using the tick/cross or Accept All buttons in the Inline Amendments panel, otherwise unexpected mark-up may appear in the bill. If you used tracked changes for the printing point changes, using |
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Accept All |
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on the Inline Amendments panel will not change these |
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easily create a “clean” version of the document |
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in which only the printing changes appear as tracks, and share this with Counsel in order to verify the printing changes. |
Amendments that should be reviewed
The Review right-hand panel will show automatically generated comments relating to:
amendments which could not be applied
amendments which were successfully applied but which require additional user verification, either because of their insert location or because there is a need to make printing/silent changes. This occurs in particular where there are two or more amendments being inserted in the same location e.g. two or more amendments inserting some paragraphs at the same point in a provision.
Amendments that weren’t applied
Any amendments that couldn't be applied will also be listed on the Review right-hand panel. Reasons for not applying an amendment include:
the location information (clause/schedule, page or line) was invalid or incorrect,
the amendment overlapped with the location of another amendment, or
the amendment's instruction was in a form that wasn’t recognised.
Get in touch with the service team if you think an amendment ought to have been applied successfully but instead fails.