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Introduction

This page outlines how you can create a UK Private Bill and the specific features in Lawmaker to help you do that.

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Use the Insert menu in the toolbar and select Insert Front Cover, Insert Back Cover or Insert Table of Contents.

See Inserting UK Bill and Act front and back covers for more general help with covers and OLD - Inserting table of contents for tables of contents.

Adding promoter/sponsor details to the back cover

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When you convert a Private Bill to a Local Act, the following should happen:

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  • In the Bill title, "Bill" is replaced with the word "Act" .

  • The Act year will appear at the end of the Act title

Front Cover

  • Displays .

  • The front cover will show the updated short title (Act Title) and the chapter number

  • But not the Explanatory Notes (which is only used for public bills)

Table of Content

  • Appears only if there was a table of contents in the bill version being converted

  • No longer displays the version rubric

  • Displays the chapter number under the updated short title (Act Title)

Preface

  • No longer displays the version rubric

  • Displays will show underneath.

  • The Explanatory Note will be removed.

  • The version rubric will no longer be displayed.

  • The version rubric will no longer be displayed on the cover or preface.

  • The preface displays the act year and chapter number under the short title (Act Title).

  • Assent date will appear under the long title (right-aligned) 

Back Cover

  • Removedin the preface.

  • The back cover will be removed.

  • The XML root element becomes <act name="ukla"> rather than <bill name=”ukprib”>.

Generating PDFs of private Bills and Local Acts

You can generate a PDF of a Private Bill or Local Act in the same way you would for a public Bill or Act. This includes generating line numbering for a Bill.

See Generating and viewing a PDF .

Publishing Private Bills and sharing Local Acts with TNA

You can publish a Private Bill in the same way that you would publish a Bill. See [Lords] Publishing bills .

You can share a Local Act with TNA in the same way that would share a UKPGA.