Creating an inline amendment

Introduction

Lawmaker can create traditionally formatted amendments from changes made to the text of the bill.   This can make drafting amendments easier and often a quicker process.  The traditional amendments that are generated can be submitted to the relevant Parliament for tabling/lodging.  

How to get started

From the 'Amendment Workspace' tab, click on the + New button in the top right

Select 'Inline'

The system will ask you to provide the following information:

• Check the correct bill version is selected

• Select the House (applicable to UK bills only)

• Select the stage

• Provide a unique list name

• Select the proposer

• When you have added the necessary details, click on the Create button

The system create a copy of the bill version you selected and open it in the Editor

How to create inline amendments

To create 'Insert text' type amendments: 

• Place your cursor were you want to insert the new amendment

• From the Amendment tools menu, select insert

• Press the Enter key to bring up the insert menu, and

• Select 'Insert text' 

• Type in the new text

To insert new structure e.g. Clauses, subsections, etc:

• From the Amendment tools menu, select insert

• Press 'Enter' to bring up the insert menu, and

• select the appropriate provision and enter your new Clause, etc,

To create 'Leave out' type amendments:

• highlight the text or provision(s)that you want to leave out, and either:

  • click the 'Leave out' button on the floating tool bar, or

  • click on the 'Leave out' button on the 'Inline Amendment Tools' right-hand panel

To create 'Substitute' type amendments:

• highlight the text or provision or both that you want to leave out, and either:

  • click the 'Substitute' button on the floating tool bar, or

  • click on the 'Substitute' button on the 'Inline Amendment Tools' right-hand panel if the floating tool bar doesn't appear

• add in the text/provision to insert in substitution:

  • if you left out a whole provision, the same provision will be automatically inserted for you after the left out provision (i.e. a direct substitution)

  • if you left out some text, a 'Text' placeholder will appear after the text that you left out, ready for you to add substitution text.  You can continue adding further provisions after the text if required)

  • if you left out text and provisions:

  • if the selection to be left out starts with text followed by provisions then a 'Text' placeholder will be inserted after the last left out provision.

  • if the selection to be left out starts with provisions followed by text, then the same kind of provision that is being left out will be inserted after the end of the leave out selection, and the trailing text in the last provision will be moved into that newly inserted provision after the 'Text' placeholder.

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