As you draft your document by moving, deleting and inserting provisions the numbering of your document can get out of order and will need renumbering. By default, Lawmaker will auto-assign a number for provisions when they move around. However, there is an auto-renumber option which currently only works when inserting or deleting provisions (not through drag & drop). It does not include the management of any x-refs within the renumbered portion so make sure you tag any intended cross references before you renumber.
How to set Editor to ‘automatically renumber provisions’
Open up your selected document in the Editor
Select “Tools > Automatically renumber provision’ from the upper-tool bar
The system will now renumber lower-level provisions as you insert/delete them
How to renumber
Either
Highlight the set of provisions you want to renumber using the breadcrumb to select a single provision; or using the structure view to select one or more contiguous, sibling provisions, or
Place cursor in the provision you want to renumber
Specify you would like to renumber your selected provisions by
clicking on the ‘Renumber’ button in the upper tool bar,
Right-click in the Editor view or Structure view and select ‘Renumber’ or
using keyboard short-cut Alt + n
If you haven’t highlighted a set of provisions, Lawmaker will check first whether you want to renumber the current provision (e.g. section, schedule or grouping element) or the whole document.
Once you have specified the range of your renumber, Lawmaker will attempt to acquire a lock on your selected provision(s) if there is not already one there and will renumber the provisions sequentially including all their descendants.
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Hints and tips
Most legislative provisions have numbers. Lawmaker generally assigns a number to a provision as soon as you insert it. It does the same when you paste provisions or move them around in the Structure View.
Lawmaker has two different numbering modes which you can switch between. We call these “auto-assign” mode and “auto-renumber” mode.
You can toggle between the two modes using Tools menu>Turn on/off Automatic renumbering. The mode selected will apply to all documents you work on until you change it again.
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Whenever you open a document in the Editor, a green pop-up message will appear in the top right-hand corner of the screen letting you know what numbering mode Lawmaker is in If you have enabled ‘Automatically renumber provisions’ only lower-level elements will be renumbered (subsections and below for bills; paragraphs and below for SI/SSIs and schedule sub-paragraphs for all documents’ schedules) 'Automatically renumber provisions' will remain enabled for all other documents that you edit (including after you log out and log back in again) until you choose to turn it off again. You can prevent a number from being renumbered by locking it (see ‘Locking and unlocking numbers’) If a number has been locked, the renumber function will ignore it and move onto the next provision in the sequence. Any provisions following a locked number will be renumbered based on the locked number e.g. if the locked number was 3A, the next unlocked sibling provision will be 3B and so on. If you don’t want the next provision to follow the format of the preceding locked num, you will need to lock the next provision’s number as well. See Annex 11 – Locking numbers for more information on how numbering locking works. Depending on the size of your bill or your provisions, you could select to renumber the body, part, schedule, schedule part, schedule chapter, chapter, cross heading, section, subsection or lower To renumber the whole document, no one else can have a lock on provisions in the document Renumbering will not include provisions within quoted structures if your cursor is outside of a quoted structure when you select to renumber. These should be renumbered separately by selecting the quoted structure from the breadcrumb OR structure view (or selecting a provision within them) and selecting ‘Renumber Provisions’ from the upper toolbar The system will detect whether you are within a quoted structure when you renumber and offer you the alternative choices of:
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You can edit the number of any provision if you want it to have a different number from the one automatically assigned. (See Locking and unlocking numbers for how to stop Lawmaker overwriting your manually applied number when it renumbers.)
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See Renumbering for how to renumber a selection of provisions or the whole document. |
Auto-assign mode
In this mode, Lawmaker will assign a number to newly inserted (and pasted) provisions to give them unique numbers without changing any existing number. For example, a subsection inserted between subsections (2) and (3) will be given the number (1A). For more on the logic applied see Rules used to "auto-assign" numbers to provisions.
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This includes when you drag and drop a provision in the structure view, i.e. when you drag and drop a provision in a new position it will be assigned a new number as if it had been newly inserted at the new location. |
Auto-renumber mode
In this mode all lower level provisions are automatically renumbered whenever you insert (including paste) or delete (including cut) a provision.
Lower level provisions are provisions below the level of:
a section/clause in a Bill, e.g. subsections, paragraphs, sub-paragraphs;
a regulation/article/rule in an SI/SSI, e.g. paragraphs, sub-paragraphs;
a schedule in any document, e.g. schedule paragraphs, schedule sub-paragraphs.
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When this numbering mode is active, dragging and dropping provisions in the Structure View that are not automatically renumbered, like sections or regulations, will result in those provisions retaining their existing numbers (unlike what happens in auto-assign mode). |