You can import legislation from legislation.gov.uk into Lawmaker to create a new working version. You can import a whole document or part of it (e.g. a specific section).
The URL must be from legislation.gov.uk .
How to import a document from legislation.gov.uk
On the Project tab, click on the Document actions drop down menu
Select Import from legislation.gov.uk
Paste the legislation.gov.uk URL of the document you wish to import within the URL field
Select a folder and enter a version description for your new document
Click in the Import button
Lawmaker will validate the URL to check that it is a legislation.gov.uk URL and that it is a piece of legislation. If it is, a new working version will be created on the Project tab.
What can you import? (valid URLs/Documents)
The feature only imports pieces of legislation from legislation.gov.uk.
You can import any Primary, Secondary, Draft and EU legislation.
You can import any version of a piece of legislation: original (as enacted), latest available (revised), or any point in time.
If the URL contains the keyword /contents, for instance https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2022/3/contents , then the whole document is imported (rather than the actual contents page).
If the URL contains a keyword for a specific part, for instance https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2022/3/section/2 , then only the specified section is imported
You cannot import:
Associated documents
EU Treaties
Impact Assessments
PDFs
Convert Document to match the format of your project
When importing a document from legislation.gov.uk , you have two choices:
To import the document as it is, retaining its original format (e.g.: importing a EU regulation into a SI project will import the document retaining its EU elements).
This can be useful for citing/referencing purposes (e.g. to insert a section into a quoted structure). To choose this option, untick “Convert document to match the format of this project”.To convert the document to match the format of the project the document is being imported into (e.g.: importing a EU regulation into a SI project will convert the EU document into SI elements). This option is ticked by default.
When importing a document of the same type of your project, you can have the “Convert document to match the format of this project” either ticked or unticked.
Non-imported elements
The following are removed before importing any document type:
Signature block
Editorial notes about amendments
Table formatting
The following are removed before importing EU documents
Preamble
Attachments
Elements not yet supported
We are still developing and refining the import feature. This means that there are a few elements that are not yet supported and, therefore, are not currently imported or are imported incorrectly. These are:
Images
Table footnotes
Landscape pages
Converting EU legislation to UK/Scottish Bill or SI/SSI
EU articles become sections in UK/Scottish Bill, regulations in SI/SSI
EU article paragraphs become subsections in UK/Scottish Bill
Paragraph numbering style changes to match UK/Scottish Bill and SI/SSI style
EU annexes and appendices become individual separate schedules. The word “Annex” / “Appendix” is replaced with the word “Schedule” and they are numbered sequentially. However, the original number information is retained and inserted as part of the heading. For instance,
“Appendix II
Continuing Airworthiness Arrangement”
becomes
“Schedule I
Appendix II - Continuing Airworthiness Arrangement”
Converting Act to SI and vice versa
Act sections become regulations, rules or articles
Act subsections become paragraphs