Introduction
Once you have finished drafting your amendment(s), you can submit them for tabling/lodging at the appropriate Parliament. This action changes
When an amendment is submitted by a user who is not a parliament user, the permissions on an amendment if you are a Counsel user it are changed so that the appropriate Parliament parliament users can now view, edit and edit manage the submitted amendments . while the original user retains read-only access.
How to submit amendments from the
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Amendment Manager Tab
Click on the ‘Amendment Manager’ tab
Using the check boxes on the left-hand side of each amendment, select the one(s) you wish to submit
Click on the 'Amendment Action' dropdown menu in the top right of the screen and select "Submit Amendments"
The selected elements will be updated to status “Submitted” and visible to the appropriate Parliaments’ users.
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You can only submit amendments in this way if:
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How to submit amendments from the Editor
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(non-parliamentary users)
You can submit all the amendments in a list of draft amendments (LoDA) directly from the Editor.
Open the list in the Editor.
Click on the 'Document Information' right-hand panel
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Click
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Submit
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List.
All the amendments in the list will be updated to status “Submitted” and become visible to the appropriate Parliaments’ users
How to 'bulk' submit amendments from the Editor (Parliament users)
Click on the 'Amendment Status' right-hand panel in the Editor
From the Bulk update statuses drop-down, select "Draft to Submitted"
Click on the Update button
Save your changes and all amendments in the list that are set to 'Draft' will be updated to 'Submitted'
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Hints and tips
parliament. In addition, a copy of the whole list will be created that is visible to the appropriate parliament which parliament users can use to help check and manage the submitted amendments in one place.
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You can only submit amendments in this way if:
If an amendment contains tracked changes or comments (in the Editor) then a warning will be displayed when you select to submit them. You can choose to cancel and remove them or submit them anyway.Submitting |
How to 'bulk' submit amendments from the
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the associated bill document has been published by the appropriate Parliament,
their status is “Draft”,
there are no active locks on them, and
there isn't a flag set against them (this check only works if submitting from the 'Amendments' tab)
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Editor (Parliament users)
Parliament users can update the status of amendments to submitted from within the Editor using the Bulk update statutes feature.
Click on the 'Amendment Status' right-hand panel in the Editor
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the associated bill document has been published by the appropriate Parliament,
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their status is “Draft”, and
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Click the Bulk update statuses button. From the pop up select the amendment you wish to update. Select ‘Draft to Submitted’.
Click on the Update button
Save your changes and all amendments in the list that are set to 'Draft' will be updated to 'Submitted'
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Hints and tipsThe system knows which Parliament to share the amendments to:
You will continue to view an up-to-date version of the amendments so that if the Parliament made some changes to your amendment or the status was to update – you would be able to see these changes if you opened the amendments in the Editor |
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