Content Comparison

Bankruptcy and Diligence (Scotland) Bill

(As Introduced)

27 out of 30 applied

Scenarios tested:

• Amendments inserting new cross-headings

• Hybrid amendments inserting new paragraphs containing Quoted Structures

• Substitution of subsections

• Insertion of new clauses at the same location in the bill

• A complex hybrid amendment to leave out the first two subsections and one child paragraph in section 1 and insert new subsections (which should then inherit the remaining child paragraphs) did not apply successfully. We'll aim to fix this in a future support release.

• One amendment which leaves out a subsection failed to apply because the amendment instruction did not include page and line numbers. Adding these and saving the amendment allows it to be auto-applied successfully.

• One amendment failed to apply because a full-stop had been included at the end of the Quoted Structure in the amendment instruction. Removing this and saving the amendment allowed the amendment to be applied.

Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Bill

(As Introduced)

196 out of 214 applied

In order to check Editor performance in a bill containing a large number of applied amendments, we tested auto-apply using the latest batch of lodged government amendments to this bill.

• A high proportion of amendments applied successfully, including those that insert new Parts or other comparable structure.

• Performance appeared acceptable; the ‘fold’ option on the Editor toolbar can be used to improve performance further.

• Accepting amendments one-by-one appeared to work well in the context of this bill.