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Version 15 introduces a range of new features and improvements together with further bug fixes.

It was released on [x 30 August ] 2023.

New features and improvements

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• it only operates at one level, rather than nested levels, so that you can quickly expand and collapse provisions without multiple clicks and so that, even when everything is collapses, the overall document structure remains more apparent.

• the functionality has been extended across Bills, SIs and amendment lists in a consistent way. It now applies to:

  • Sections/Clauses, and schedule paragraphs, of a Bill;

  • Regulations/articles/rules, and schedule paragraphs, of an SI/SSI;

  • the quoted structure (i.e. the provisions being inserted) by an amendment.

• the toolbar in the Editor now has two buttons so you can quickly and easily access the functionality to expand all provisions or collapse all provisions (other than the one your cursor is in).

  

• All provisions in a Bill etc. will be open by default when the document is first opened. (You can use the button the toolbar to quickly collapse them if needed.)

See Folding provisions.

Editor - Validation, document checks and data quality

Improvements to document checks (schematronSchematron) - there were a few updates to the document check validation:

• Checks for correct number format will now accept “legal numbering” style (e.g. 3.13B or 1.2);

• A new check has been added to highlight where two lists have been inserted back to back (this is mostly likely an error and there should only usually occurring within SI explanatory notes - in most cases the user intended for there only to be one list) (LPS-92);

• A check has been added to identify schedule paragraph numbers in SI quoted structures that are missing a full stop after the number;

• A new check highlights any locked numbers that are not within a quoted structure - this helps users manage locks created elsewhere while using the Edit Portion feature or the auto-application of amendments feature that may get in the way of subsequent actions (e.g. renumber) (LMS-949, LMS-1078);

• Various rules have been tweaked to remove false positives (LMS-1460, LMS-1452, LMS-1466) include some errors relating to numbering that would show when using the Edit Portion feature and errors relating to cross-references within amendments.

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Version 15 introduces a significant new feature, that enables you to import a document or portion of a document from www.legislation.gov.uk into Lawmaker. As part of importing the document, you can convert it from primary to secondary and you can also convert retained EU legislation. More information on the new feature can be found here: Import legislation from www.legislation.gov.uk.

SI/SSI improvements

Editor formatting of regulations/articles that are divided into paragraphs - we’ve improved the way the Editor handles the presentation of regulations containing paragraphs so that there isn’t any overlap between the regulation number, the em-dash that follows it and the paragraph number (1) - this was particularly a problem when the regulation number was longer than usual or appeared within a quoted structure.

Legal numbering - limited support has been added for legal numbering (i.e. numbering which consists of numbers separated by a full stop, e.g. 1.1, 1.2, 3.4A, etc. in regulation/article/rule numbers. In particular, the renumbering and cross-referencing features will now behave correctly in relation to them (although some numbers will need to be manually locked). See Legal Numbering - DRAFT for how to use this number format. (LMS-810)

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Editor and misc.

Amendments

PDF generation

SI/SSI