By “legal numbering” we mean numbers that consist of two or more numeric components separated by a full stop, e.g. 1.2, 3.5, 13.2A. We’ve called it legal numbering because it is a style of numbering commonly used in legal documents. In legislation, legal numbering is most commonly used in court rules but also sometimes appears in EU legislation.
Lawmaker supports the legal numbering style for SI regulations and articles and schedule paragraphs. It can also be used for Bill sections.
The numbering for these provisions by default continues to be the standard style (e.g. 1., 2., 3. etc. or 1, 2, 3 etc.) but you can manually change the numbering to the legal numbering style and Lawmaker will respect that when renumbering or adding new provisions.
To use legal numbering, create a new SI/SSI as normal and insert your first provision.
Change to Legal Numbering
Click on your first number and update the number to the correct format ie: 1.1.
Next, Lock the number by, one of the following actions:
Right-clicking on the number and selecting Lock/Unlock Number
Press Alt L
From the Tools menu, select Lock/Unlock Number
More information on locking can be found here - Locking and unlocking numbers
Then continue with your SI/Bill as normal. Lawmaker will create the right numbering structure, and also renumber using the right structure.
You will need to also lock any numbered provision following a Part.
There is currently a bug, if you copy court rules numbering from another source, eg: Word or legislation.gov.uk. Lawmaker will insert any numbering after the first full stop, as text into the paragraph. You can work around this by simply deleting the additional characters.