Introduction
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.
Video explaining how renumbering works
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
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You can trigger a renumbering of a single provision, the whole document or a selection of provisions within the document.
How to renumber
To trigger a renumber, do one of the following:
Click on the Renumber icon in the toolbar,
Right-click in the Editor view or Structure view View and select ‘Renumber’ or Renumber,
using Press keyboard short-cut Alt+n
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If you’ve selected some provisions before triggering renumber then those provisions will be renumbered. Otherwise, you’ll be given a choice of whether to renumber the current provision (i.e. g. the section, schedule or grouping elementregulation etc. or schedule containing your cursor) 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
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Renumbering the whole document will require locks to be taken on all provisions so can’t be done if anyone else is editing the same document at the time. |
If your cursor is within a quoted structure then you’ll be given a choice between the current provision and the whole quoted structure instead.
Lawmaker will renumber the provisions sequentially including all their descendants.
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Hints and tips
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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Renumbering the current provision (which renumber up to the section/regulation/article/schedule/rule or grouping element that your cursor is in)
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It won’t renumber any locked numbers and those numbers will influence subsequent numbers - see Locking and unlocking numbers.
Renumbering and quoted structures
The renumber function will not renumber provisions in quoted structures except where your cursor is within a quoted structure before you trigger the operation.
If you want to renumber a quoted structure, place your cursor within it and then trigger the renumber operation selecting “whole quoted Structure” as the scope of the operation. This will renumber that quoted structure. It won’t renumber any other quoted structures, including any adjacent quoted structures.
See Quoted structures for more on quoted structures generally.